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In  Behalf  of  the  Freshmen 
Librarianship  as  a  Profession  for  Women 
North  Carolina  Problems:  Solved  and  Unsolved 
The  Letter  Box 


JANUARY,   1926 


VOL.   XIV 


NO.  3 


FRESHMAN  COMMISSION 

Reading  left  to  right — 

Bottom  row:      Ruth  Clinard,  Elizabeth  Pannill,  Harriet  Brown,  "26, 

Rachel  Aycock,  Ora  Brock. 

Second  row:      Edla  Best,  Aline  Kaneer,  Dorothy  Robertson,  Emily  Alexander, 

Miss  Green,  Student  Councillor,  Dorothy  Miller,  Elizabeth  Steinhardt, 

Margaret  Teague. 

Top  row:      Mary  Clara  Tate,  Clara  Guignard,  Ruth  Butler, 

Virginia  Kirkpatrick,  Garnett  Gregory. 


THE  ALUMNAE  NEWS 

PUBLISHED  QUARTERLY   BY 

THE  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  NORTH 

CAROLINA  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN 

GREENSBORO,  N.  C. 

Clara  Booth  Byrd,  Hdilor 
Sallie  Tucker,  Business  Manager 

Officers  of  the  Alumnae  and  Former  Students  Association,  Inc. 
Laura  H.  Coit,  Honorary  President  Flossie  Foster,  Vice-President 

Jane  Summerell,  President  Clara  Booth  Byrd,  Secretary-Treasurer 

Board  of  Trustees:     Emily  Austin,  Hattie  Parrott,  Julia  Cherry  Spruill,  Annie  Albright,  Kath- 

rine  Robinson,  Mary  B.  Mitchell  Sellars,  Fleida  Johnson,   Patte  Jordan,   Elizabeth   Black. 

Flossie  Harris  Spruill. 

Admitted  as  second-class  matter  at  the  postoffice  in  Greensboro,  N.  C,  June  29,   1912 


Vol.  XIV 


JANUARY.  1926 


No.  3 


In  Behalf  of  the  Freshmen 


A  good  many  people  engaged  in  col- 
lege work,  as  well  as  educational  laymen 
on  the  outside,  believe  that  the  best  and 
most  experienced  teachers  should  be  as- 
signed to  the  freshmen.  They  believe 
that  if  this  were  consistently  done  the 
number  dropping  out  of  college  from  the 
freshman  class  would  be  decreased  and 
the  number  in  the  gi'aduating  class  cor- 
respondingly increased.  Whether  after 
all  such  an  arrangement  would  elimi- 
nate the  great  discrepancy  in  the  size  of 
the  two  classes  we  do  not  know.  But 
this  is  true,  that  the  freshman  is  being 
discovered  by  colleges  as  never  before, 
and  better  M^ays  and  means  are  being 
sought  and  devised  to  get  at  him  and  to 
hold  him  to  the  completion  of  his  col- 
lege course. 

This  new  discovery  of  the  freshmen 
has  resulted  largely  from  the  enormous 
increase  in  college  enrollment  during  the 
past  few  years.  They  loom  large  in  the 
scheme  of  things  from  their  very  num- 
ber^ — there  are  too  many  of  them  longer 
to  escape  serious  attention.  In  many 
colleges  today,  our  own  included,  the 
freshman  class  represents  not  far  from 
half  the  campus  load.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  such  a  condition  constitutes 


a  problem,  both  for  the  administration 
and  for  the  individual. 

Presidents,  deans,  faculties,  student 
government  officers  are  united  in  asking : 
What  can  we  do  to  assimilate  this  large 
number  cf  new  recruits  on  the  campus, 
to  inoculate  them  quickly  with  the  finest 
traditions  and  ideals  of  the  college  so 
that  they  will  fall  into  even  step  with 
the  best  of  campus  thought  and  conduct  1 
How  can  we  help  them  .so  to  orient 
themselves  that  they  will  not  feel  lost 
in  the  crowd,  but  will  as  early  as  pos- 
sible find  their  niche  and  feel  themselves 
an  integral  part  of  the  body  politic? 
How  can  we  bring  about  coherence  and 
solidarity  as  a  group  and  yet  at  the  same 
time  induce  each  individual  to  accept 
her  share  of  individual  responsibility 
for  upholding  campus  honor  ?  In  final 
terms,  how  can  the  college  so  grip  the 
freslimen  that  the  finest  contributions  of 
the  college  will  become  theirs? 

FACULTY  ADVISERS 

A  system  of  faculty  advisers  is  de- 
signed to  help  answer  the  question. 
Each  freshman  is  assigned,  upon  her  ar- 
rival, to  a  member  of  the  faculty  whose 
dutv  it  is  to  advise  with  her  throughout 


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the  year  about  her  work.  At  intervals 
reports  regarding  the  standing  of  the 
student  in  her  classes  is  also  given  to 
the  adviser  and  sent  to  the  parents  at 
home.  If  her  work  in  any  subject  is 
"unsatisfactory",  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
adviser  to  attempt  to  discover  the  cause 
and  see  that  it  is  remedied  if  possible. 

MINIMUM  REQUIREMENTS 

The  Faculty  Council  has  also  passed  a 
regulation  to  the  effect  that  freshmen 
must  pass  six  hours  of  work  the  first 
semester  in  order  to  remain  in  college, 
and  nine  hours  the  second  semester  in 
order  to  be  readmitted  to  college  the 
next  year.  Since  thirty  hours  repre- 
sent a  year's  work  it  is  evident  that  she 
must  pass  half  of  it,  fifteen  hours,  if 
she  retains  her  place  in  the  college  the 
second  year.  On  the  surface,  this  re- 
quirement seems  low;  but  the  differ- 
ence in  the  standards  of  grading  must 
be  borne  in  mind.  At  this  writing,  re- 
sults of  mid-term  examinations  are  not 
available  and  we  have  no  way  of  know- 
ing how  helpful  this  regulation  appears 
to  be. 

If  a  student,  however,  does  not  for 
any  reason  meet  this  rather  low  mini- 
mum requirement  in  scholarship,  it 
ought  to  be  obvious  to  all  concerned  that 
college  is  not  the  place  for  her  now. 
She  is  keeping  away  some  other  student 
who  might  succeed.  She  is  wasting  the 
investment  of  the  state  in  her.  She  is 
affecting  disadvantageously  the  standard 
of  scholarship  in  her  classes.  If  it  is  a 
matter  of  deficiency  in  health  or  prepa- 
ration, she  should  be  withdrawn  until 
such  conditions  are  changed.  But  for 
all  who  may  be  withdrawn,  whatever  be 
the  cause,  the  experience  will  not  be  a 
happy  one.  They  would  conceivably 
rather  not  have  come  at  all.  Therefore, 
the  whole  matter  is  bound  up  in  the 
question :  Who  shall  be  admitted  to  col- 
lege? And  upon  the  committee  on  ad- 
missions rests  largely  the  responsibility 
for  the  right  answer. 


A  NEW  COURSE  FOR  FRESHMEN 

Not  the  least  significant  of  these  at- 
tempts to  "discover"  the  freshman  is 
the  new  course  in  "How  to  Study", 
offered  for  the  first  time  in  1924.  Over 
and  over  again,  college  students  have 
borne  testimony  that  they  did  not  know 
how  to  use  their  time,  how  to  make  their 
mental  processes  function  most  effec- 
tively when  preparing  their  lessons,  and 
have  placed  the  definite  responsibility 
for  poor  grades  and  even  loss  of  class 
standing  on  this  cause. 

Mr.  P.  L.  Karriman,  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  English,  has  charge  of  this 
course.  In  explaining  its  purpose  he 
says: 

"For  many  years  educators  have  felt 
that  more  time  should  be  devoted  to  in- 
struction in  how  to  study,  a  necessary 
yet  neglected  part  of  the  training  of 
most  of  us.  Our  teachers  were  content 
to  say,  'Study  the  fourth  chapter  for 
next  time,'  and  we  went  about  our  task 
as  best  we  could.  Now,  however,  many 
colleges,  realizing  that  such  methods 
should  be  taught  at  some  period  in  the 
student's  life,  have  instituted  courses 
in  methods  of  study  for  their  freshmen. 
Such  a  course  was  added  to  our  curric- 
ulum in  the  fall  of  1924  and  has  en- 
gaged the  attention,  withal  forced,  of 
all  our  first-year  students  except  those 
in  music  or  in  home  economics.  In  this 
work,  sections  which  meet  for  one  hour 
a  week,  we  study  essays  on  the  more 
practical  aspects  of  psychology,  both 
for  content  and  for  structure.  As  a 
result,  we  hope  to  teach  the  girls  how 
to  read  with  comprehension  and  at  the 
same  time  how  to  use  their  minds  effec- 
tively. Engaged  in  this  work  of  an  ex- 
tra 'Englishing'  of  the  freshmen  are 
Miss  Bonner,  Miss  Gould,  Miss  Rowley, 
Mr.  Brown,  ]Mr.  Dunn,  and  Mr.  Harri- 
man." 

THE  FRESHMAN  COMMISSION 

The  Freshman  Commission,  organized 
a  few  years  ago  by  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  and 
somewhat  modified  and  reorganized  this 
year,  with  the  assistance  of  the  depart- 


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rnent  of  Student  Life,  seems  to  be  get- 
ting under  way.  It  is  composed  of 
twenty-three  members — the  class  officers, 
one  girl  selected  from  each  dormitory 
and  three  chosen  at  large.  There  are 
698  girls  in  the  freshman  class,  and  the 
commission  has  set  itself  to  the  task  of 
solidifying  them  and  knitting  them  to- 
gether as  far  as  possible  into  a  working 
unit  within  the  college.  It  is  endeavor- 
ing to  organize  the  class  into  separate 
though  cooperating  groups,  in  order  to 
see  to  it  that  each  girl  has  a  chance  to 
take  a  lively  part  in  some  phase  of  class 
activity  so  that  the  undertakings  of  the 
class  may  not  be  carried  on  by  the  few. 

In  order  to  get  a  working  idea  of  the 
talents,  interests,  and  experience  of  the 
individual  members  and  to  determine  as 
far  as  possible  the  particular  place  in 
which  each  one  might  most  jjiofitably 
and  happily  function,  the  commission 
made  a  survey  of  the  class.  ''Activity" 
slips  were  prepared  and  each  girl  was 
asked  to  check  her  preference,  in  the 
various  phases  of  athletics,  art,  music, 
dramatics,  literary  work,  and  other 
,  fields.  Under  the  head  of  dramatics, 
for  instance,  she  was  asked  to  indicate 
whether  she  would  prefer  directing, 
management,  stage  designing,  costume 
designing,  back  stage  work,  or  acting. 
These  slips  were  then  studied,  and  the 
girls  were  classified  into  groups  accord- 
ing to  their  interest  and  experience. 

Each  member  of  the  commission  is 
chairman  of  one  of  these  activity  divi- 
sions or  sub-divisions,  and  these  chair- 
men are  now  selecting  their  committees 
and  planning  their  programs. 

The  big  piece  of  work  which  the  class 
as  a  whole  is  attempting  this  year  is  the 
fitting  up  of  the  old  Spencer  Gymnasium 
as  a  recreation  room.  The  college  is 
having  the  big  hall  freshly  painted,  but 
tables,  chairs  and  other  simple  and  at- 
tractive furnishings  are  to  be  put  in  by 
the  girls  themselves.  Also  a  reading 
room  is  to  be  made  of  one  of  the  small 
rooms  just  oft*  the  gymnasium. 

Already,  however,  the  commission  has 
done  in  a  satisfactory  manner  two  pieces 


of  general  campus  work — the  conduct- 
ing of  the  Red  Cross  Drive  for  member- 
ship, and  the  making  of  a  canva.s.s  for 
additional  subscribers  to  Pine  Needles. 
With  the  extensive  organization  at  its 
back,  the  commission  was  able  to  accom- 
plish the  desired  results  quickly  and  ef- 
ficiently. At  the  same  time,  points  of 
contact  were  made  between  the  class  and 
the  larger  campus  life. 

It  remains  to  be  seen  what  will  come 
out  of  the  idea  of  the  Freshman  Com- 
mission, its  attempt  at  class  unity,  in- 
dividual expression  and  general  assimi- 
lation. If  it  succeeds  in  bringing  about 
an  organization  knit  more  closely  around 
the  best  college  ideals,  and  affords  op- 
portunities for  constructive  self-develop- 
ment, it  will  certainly  justify  its  exist- 
ence and  be  a  decided  step  in  the  direc- 
tion of  a  better  assimilation  of  this  large 
group  into  college  life.  It  has  certainly 
made  on  encouraging  beginning ;  and  we 
gladly  welcome  this  new  agency,  and 
extend  to  it  our  sincerest  good  wishes. 

The  following  are  the  members  of  the 
commission,  with  the  committees  of 
which  they  are  chairmen : 

Alexander,  Emily,  Charlotte — Hockey  and 
Swimming. 

Aycoek,  Eachel,  Dunn — Literary. 

Best,  Elda,  Windsor — Spencer  Gymnasium — 
Design. 

Bla«k,  Dorothy,  Concord — Spencer  Gym- 
nasium— Upkeep. 

Brock,    Ora,    Asheville — Eeporting. 

Butler,  Ruth,  Bristol,  Tenn. — Prose  and 
Tennis. 

Clinard,  Euth,  High  Point — President  of 
Class   of    '29. 

Gulp,    Mary    Alice,    Gastonia — Music.    Vocal. 

Eley,  Marion,  Franklin,  Va. — Music,  Instru- 
mental. 

Gregory.  Garnett,  Greensboro — Spencer  Gym- 
nasium. 

Guignard,  Clara,  Lincolntou — Dramatics  As 
a   Whole  and   Directing. 

Hafer,  Martha,  High  Point. — Dramatics — 
Back  Stage  and  Design. 

Kaneer,  Aliene,  High  Point — Dramatics — 
Management. 

Kilpatrick,  Virginia,  Durham  —  Spencer 
Gymnasium — Finance. 

Miller,  Dorothy,  Datta — Campus  Citizenship. 

Morton,  Elizabeth.  Charlotte  Court  House. 
A'a. — Art — Posters. 


■A  L  U  m  N  A  E      IN!  E  W  S 


Eavenell,  Frances,  Green  Pond,  S.  C. — Root- 
ers' Club. 

Rich,  Marie,  Durham — Dramatics — Costumes. 

Robertson,  Dorothy,  Norfolk,  Va. — Dra- 
matics— Acting. 

Steinhardt,  Elizabeth,  Franklin,  Va. — 
Spencer    Gymnasium — Property. 

Teague,  Margaret,  Durham — Art. 

Wilkins,   Lillian,  Elizabeth  City — Basketball. 

Young,    Carrie,    Smithfield — Baseball. 

Harriet  Brown,  '26,  is  associated  with 
the  group  as  chairman  of  the  Y.  W.  C. 
A.  Committee  on  Campus  Citizenship ; 
and  IMiss  Helen  Green,  student  council- 
lor, is  faculty  adviser. 

FRESHMAN  CHAPEL 

Under  the  general  guidance  of  Dean 
Durand  the  freshmen  are  having  their 
own  chapel  Thursday  of  each  week. 
Clara  Guignard,  Lincolnton,  is  chair- 
man of  the  Chapel  Committee,  and  pre- 
sides at  the  meetings.  They  plan  and 
conduct  their  own  programs,  with  the 
assistance  of  Misses  Andrews  and  Kill- 
ingsworth,  student  councillors.  This 
does  not  mean  that  the  freshmen  are 
released  from  attending  regular  chapel 
on  either  Monday  or  Tuesday.  They 
must  be  present  there,  as  the  other 
classes  are.  But  the  Thursday  chapel 
is  their  own,  though  other  students  are 
welcome,  of  course,  if  they  care  to  come. 
They  have  a  vested  choir  of  forty  mem- 
bers, directed  by  a  senior  in  the  music 
department,  Frances  Harrison,  Greens- 
boro. The  choir  wears  the  regulation 
black  academic  robe,  with  a  blue  and 
white  stole  for  their  class  colors,  blue 
and  white. 

At  the  first  meeting  in  the  fall  Presi- 
dent Foust  addressed  them.  The  next 
week  thej^  had  a  student  government  pro- 
gram. i\Iiss  Green,  student  councillor, 
talked  on  student  government  at  Leland 
Stanford.  Katherine  Sherrill,  Presi- 
dent of  Student  Government  Associa- 
tion, discussed  the  principles  of  student 
government ;  and  Martha  Haf  er  de- 
scribed student  government  as  a  fresh- 
man was  viewing  it. 


Another  time  came  a  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
program.  Campus  Citizensliip  was 
discussed  by  Harriet  Brown,  '26 ;  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  and  the  freshmen,  by  Clara 
Guignard.  Other  phases  of  religious  work 
were  presented  by  Katherine  McPher- 
son,  '28,  Donnie  Sraoot,  '27,  and  Lilly 
Gilley,  '27. 

At  the  class  program,  the  freshmen 
voted  on  their  class  hymn  and  decided 
upon  number  306,  "Let  Not  Thy  Hands 
Be  Slack".  Dean  Brown  was  also  pres- 
ent at  this  meeting  and  led  the  girls  in 
singing  their  new  class  song. 

On  other  occasions,  Miss  Schoch,  head 
of  the  German  department,  gave  a  help- 
ful talk  on  "The  Wise  LTse  of  Leisure", 
and  ]\Iiss  Emma  Page,  sister  of  Walter 
Hines  Page,  led  the  girls  to  earnest 
thinking  about  "The  Price  of  Char- 
acter". There  have  been  other  interest- 
ing assemblies — a  musical  program  by 
members  of  the  class,  consisting  of  piano, 
violin  and  voice  numbers ;  a  talk  bj^  Joe 
Hege,  '27,  on  ' '  Scholarship  "  ;  a  Thanks- 
giving pageant  depicting  the  spirit  of 
Thanksgiving  throughout  the  ages 
among  all  races,  the  lines  being  written 
by  Garnett  Gregory,  '29.  And  just  be- 
fore Christmas  another  group  of  color- 
ful tableaux  portrayed  the  nativity,  the 
arrival  of  the  Wise  Men  and  the  Three 
Shepherds.  Since  Christmas  ]\Ir.  Fuchs, 
of  the  Violin  Department,  has  talked  on 
"The  Listeners'  Part  in  Music". 

Freshman  Chapel  is  scarcely  half  a 
year  old.  It  is  too  early  to  say  what 
place  it  will  ultimately  attain  in  the  life 
of  the  campus  and  of  the  class.  But  its  • 
chairman  says  most  convincingly  and  we 
agree  with  her,  "We  have  made  a  good 
start  and  we  believe  that  it  is  doing  a 
lot  to  hold  our  class  together.  Of  course 
we  have  cur  problems,  but  we  expect  to 
plan  more  and  more  interesting  pro- 
grams and  we  want  to  find  new  ways  to 
use  the  girls  themselves.  We  do  truly 
hope  that  we  are  at  least  pointing  the 
wav  for  other  freshmen  classes." 


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The  Night  Before  Christmas 


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We  have  laid  the  corner  stone  of  a 
new  tradition.  That  last  evening,  think ! 
— that  last  night  before  we  are  to  break 
free  from  the  restraints  of  book  and 
regulation,  to  dash  for  freedom  and  va- 
cation the  next  day!  Nobody  under- 
stands any  better  than  an  alumna  how 
indescribably  hilarious  that  last  night 
usually  is,  how  difficult  the  task  of  hold- 
ing in  reasonable  check  the  holiday  ex- 
citement. 

This  year  the  Sophomore  Class  re- 
quested that  it  be  made  responsible  for 
a  suitable  program  in  the  chapel  that 
night — something  beautiful,  something 
impressive,  something  touched  with  a 
bit  of  the  true  atmosphere  of  the  real 
Christmas  spirit.  They  asked  that  this 
performance  be  hereafter  entrusted  to 
the  Sophomore  Class  and  established  as 
a  sophomore  tradition.  Their  request 
was  granted,  and  their  first  effort  was 
a  great  success. 

The  program,  staged  in  the  audito- 
rium, centered  around  a  drama  in  one 
act,  four  sophomores  taking  the  part  of 
the  father,  the  mother,  the  small  daugh- 
ter and  an  employee.  The  scene  was 
laid   in   a   modern   home,    the   theme    a 


protest  against  an  interpretation  of 
Christmas  as  a  time  for  exchanging 
gifts;  it  is  rather  a  time  for  commemo- 
rating the  birth  of  the  Christ  in  a  spirit 
of  loving  thoughtfulness  and  un.selfish- 
ness.  The  change  wrought  in  the  house- 
hold takes  place  before  our  eyes.  The 
lines  were  written  by  Fadean  Pleasants, 
Durham ;  the  act  was  coached  by  Kate 
Hall,  Asheville.  The  little  drama  was 
well  done  and  it  made  its  impression. 
Previous  to  the  performance  of  the 
play  and  after  the  audience  had  been 
seated,  a  lovely  ceremony  took  place, 
opening  the  event.  The  hall  was  dark- 
ened and  from  the  rear,  down  either 
aisle,  representative  sophomores  and 
freshmen  advanced  side  by  side  in  dou- 
ble file.  Both  classes  were  dressed  in 
white.  The  sophomores,  however,  wore 
scarlet  hoods  and  caps  and  carried  red 
candles,  lighted.  The  freshmen  carried 
unlighted  candles.  They  marched,  sing- 
ing carols,  to  their  places  in  the  tier 
of  seats  immediately  in  front  of  the 
rostrum.  After  the  performance,  the 
sophomores  and  freshmen  met  one  by 
one  upon  the  rostrum  where  the  soph- 
omores transferred  their  hoods  and  caps 


STUDENTS  ASSEMBLING  IN  FRONT  OF   ADMINISTRATION   BUILDING  THE   LAST  NIGHT 

BEFORE    THE    HOLIDAYS    TO    SING    CHRISTMAS    CAROLS.      PICTURE 

TAKEN     ABOUT     NINE     O'CLOCK    P.     M. 


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to  the  freshmen  and  with  their  lighted 
candles  kindled  the  fire  in  the  unlighted 
candles  of  their  younger  sisters.  This 
in  token  that  the  mantle  of  the  soph- 
omores had  now  fallen  upon  the  fresh- 
men. Then  the  two  classes  moved  back 
side  by  side  the  same  way  in  which  they 
had  come,  to  the  rear  of  the  building 
and  out,  and  led  the  crowd  to  the  bril- 
liantly lighted  Christmas  tree  in  front 
of  Administration  Building.  Here  Dean 
Brown  was  in  charge  of  the  singing  of 
the  carols.  The  audience  read  the 
words  of  the  hymns  from  a  screen  hung 
in    front    of    the    building.       Spanish, 


French  and  German  carols,  sung  in  the 
original  and  directed  by  members  of 
those  departments,  made  one  of  the 
most  pleasing  parts  of  the  program.  As 
the  words  of  the  last  song,  "0  Little 
Town  of  Bethlehem,"  appeared  on  the 
screen.  Dean  Brown  asked  the  students 
to  break  ranks  and  to  return  to  their 
rooms,  singing  until  they  reached  them ; 
and  that  they  remember  to  do  this  as 
an  annual  custom.  It  was  indescrib- 
ably beautiful.  From  all  parts  of  the 
campus  came  floating  through  the  night 
the  sound  of  singing,  joyous,  yet  rev- 
erent. 


Librarianship  as  a  Profession  for  Women 


By  Georgia  Hicks  Faison,  1911 


(This  is  the  fourth  of  a  series  of  articles 
written  by  aiumnae  on  Professions  for  Wo- 
men. Georgia  Hicks  Faison,  its  author,  is 
librarian  in  charge  of  circulation  in  the  Uni- 
versity Library,  Chapel  Hill.  She  was  for- 
merly librarian  at  Eandolph-Macon  Woman's 
College  and  for  one  year  jirevious  was  a  eat- 
aloger  iai  the  Yale  University  Library.  Miss 
Faison  holds  the  degree  of  B.L.S.  from  the 
New  York  State  Library  School.  She  also 
studied  for  a  year  in  the  library  school 
of  Piatt  Listitute.  Previous  to  entering  this 
field  of  work,  and  after  her  graduation  from 
college,  she  taught  for  a  number  of  years  in 
the  high  schools  of  North  Carolina.  There 
enters,  therefore,  into  the  preparation  of  this 
article  a  background  of  valuable  training 
and    experience.) 

During  the  past  half  century  or  more 
the  very  nature  and  purpose  of  the 
library  has  undergone  a  decided  and 
revolutionary  change.  The  old  ideal 
was  a  cloistered  depository  of  the  knowl- 
edge of  all  ages,  carefully  guarded.  An 
atmosphere  of  profound  and  scholarly 
quietness,  the  musty  pungent  odor  of 
old  leather,  and  a  presiding  custodian 
deeply  learned  and  wise  were  the  inev- 
itable earmarks.  The  new  ideal  is  to 
make  the  accumulated  knowledge  of  the 
ages  accessible  to  as  many  as  possible 
and  in  addition  to  instill  and  cultivate 
a  taste  for  literature. 

Whether  or  not  librarianship  may  be 
called  a  profession  is  still  a  mooted  ques- 


tion. The  hue  and  cry  after  higher  train- 
ing and  broader  scholarship,  which  is 
now  rampant  in  the  library  world,  will 
doubtless  have  in  due  time  a  decided  ef- 
fect upon  the  status  of  the  trained  li- 
brary worker.  In  the  meanwhile  the 
work  has  become  a  genuine  expression  of 
social  service  and  a  vital  factor  in  the 
thinlving  life  of  any  community.  Its 
field  of  activity  is  wide  and  full  of  po- 
tentialities. As  a  formal  educational 
agency  it  parallels  and  supplements  the 
school  systems.  As  an  informal  educa- 
tional agency  it  enlarges  its  boundaries 
to  include  the  pre-school  child  and  the 
non-college  adult,  the  laborer  and  the 
mechanic.  One  of  the  programs  that 
the  American  Library  Association  is 
especially  interested  in  now  is  the  de- 
velopment of  a  system  of  adult  educa- 
tion that  can  be  conducted  by  means  of 
advised  reading  courses,  etc.  As  an 
agency  of  recreation  it  offers  the  lure  of 
the  "tale  which  holdeth  children  from 
play  and  the  old  men  from  the  chim- 
ney corner."  As  an  agency  of  inspira- 
tion it  seeks,  through  the  written  pages, 
to  offer  points  of  contacts  with  the  great 
souls  of   all  times. 

The  vocation  is  rather  unique  in  this 
respect.     It  does  not  call,  as  do  most 


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other  professions,  for  intensive  train- 
ing and  highly  specialized  knowledge 
along  any  one  line  in  order  to  be  most 
successful.  The  ideal  librarian  has  a 
breadth  of  knowledge,  a  range  of  inter- 
ests, and  wide  sympathies.  She  is  not 
called  upon  to  administer  books  and 
other  printed  matter  alone,  but  to  work 
with  a  variety  of  people  in  a  variety 
of  ways.  The  sage  and  the  child  may 
follow  one  another  in  rapid  succession 
in  laying  claim  upon  her  attention,  and 
happy  is  she  who  can  make  the  mental 
adjustment  with  alacrity  and  sympathy. 
Adaptability,  tolerance,  tactfulness, 
catholicity  of  taste,  a  logical  mind,  a 
retentive  memory,  and  a  background  of 
wide  reading  are  the  cardinal  virtues 
of  librarianship. 

Library  work  is  in  itself  sufficiently 
varied  to  offer  an  appeal  to  a  variety  of 
tastes.  Each  new  type  called  into  being 
to  fill  a  specific  need  is  naturally  cir- 
cumscribed somewhat  by  the  demands 
of  the  need  that  created  it.  The  busi- 
ness, the  museum,  and  other  highly  spe- 
cialized libraries  are  concerned  prin- 
cipally with  the  accumulation,  digest- 
ing, and  circulation  of  specific  types  of 
information  needed  by  a  limited  and 
usually  highly  trained  clientele.  The 
person  with  a  passion  for  research  would 
be  happiest  here.  The  college  and  the 
university  libraries  are  the  working  lab- 
oratories for  class  room  instruction  and 
serve  also  a  somewhat  limited,  if  non- 
specialized,  public.  A  rather  strong 
emphasis  is  placed  upon  reference  work 
and  the  use  and  compilation  of  bibliog- 
raphies. It  emphasizes  the  more  or  less 
bookish  side  of  library  work.  For  the 
person  of  strong  social  tendencies,  pub- 
lic library  work  would  offer  more  at- 
tractions. The  clientele  is  more  demo- 
cratic and  the  type  of  work  more  varied. 
The  opportunity  for  constructive  com- 
munity activities  is  also  far  richer,  in 
so  much  as  it  is  the  only  kind  of  library 
that  is  brought  into  close  personal  con- 
tact with  a  cross  section  of  society. 
State  commissions  and  library  exten- 
sion work  would  appeal  more  forcibly 


to  the  pioneering  soul.  They  comprise 
the  department  of  exploration  and  the 
making  of  conquests.  The  lengthening 
of  the  cords  and  the  strengthening  of 
the  stakes  are  entrusted  to  it.  By  means 
of  book  trucks  and  package  libraries 
the  remotest  outposts  of  the  country 
are  drawn  within  its  enmeshing  tenta- 
cles and  a  library  consciousness  of  some 
degree  is  being  slowly  developed  in 
many  of  the  out-of-the-way  sections. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  phases  of 
the  work  is  that  which  is  being  done 
with  the  children.  Perhaps  nowhere 
else  does  the  constructive  side  of  library 
work  come  to  as  full  a  fruitage.  Un- 
der the  direction  of  a  trained  librarian, 
the  school  and  the  home  are  brought 
into  close  co-operation  in  developing  the 
habit  of  reading  and  in  cultivating  a 
real  taste  for  literature. 

The  high  school  library  movement  is 
gaining  rapidly  in  popularity.  Many 
of  the  state  education  departments  are 
requiring  all  accredited  schools  to  pro- 
vide one  with  a  stated  minimum  num- 
ber of  volumes.  In  the  better  organ- 
ized states  a  custodian  with  more  or  less 
library  training  is  required  also. 

If  the  individual  library  is  a  small 
one,  all  of  the  work  is  usually  done  by 
the  librarian,  with  the  voluntary  or  paid 
assistance  of  one  or  more  untrained 
workers.  In  the  medium  and  larger 
sized  institutions  the  work  is  divided 
among  a  number  of  departments,  mak- 
ing it  possible  for  people  to  choose 
phases  of  the  work  more  adapted  to 
their  special  tastes.  The  administration 
of  a  library  calls  for  executive  ability 
in  the  direction  of  the  work  of  the  plant. 
A  discriminating  and  critical  faculty  is 
needed  in  the  appraisal  of  books  and 
periodicals.  The  cataloging  and  classi- 
fication of  the  material  collected  re- 
quire accuracy  and  a  logical  aspect  of 
mind.  A  considerable  knowledge  of  li- 
brary guides  and  of  books  themselves  is 
necessary  in  order  to  advise  and  aid 
readers,  while  the  careful  expenditure 
of  the  institution's  resources  demands 
business  aptitude. 


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As  far  as  the  figures  of  the  last  two 
censuses  are  concerned,  women  have  sub- 
stantiated the  claim  that  the  work  is 
peculiarly  suited  to  them.  They  have 
gone  into  the  field  and  laid  claim  to  it 
in  the  approximate  ratio  of  13  to  1. 
The  census  of  1910  lists  7,423  librarians, 
of  whom  5,829  were  women.  A  material 
gain  was  made  in  the  next  decade.  They 
numbered  13,503  out  of  a  possible  total 
of  15,297.  Within  the  same  space  of 
time  the  increase  among  the  men  was 
only  a  growth  of  200. 

Although  the  highest  administrative 
positions  in  the  larger  library  systems 
are  held  by  men  as  a  rule,  women  are 
gradually  winning  the  opportunity  to 
demonstrate  their  executive  ability. 
Three  of  the  large  systems  are  being 
ably  administered  by  them.  The  most 
noteworthy  one  is  the  Public  Library 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  whose  chief  librarian 
is  Miss  Linda  A.  Eastman.  Some  of 
the  facts  given  in  her  report  for  1924 
are  highly  interesting  and  as  equally 
revealing.  In  addition  to  administrat- 
ing the  main  library  she  has  under  her 
direction  26  general  branches,  29  school 
branches,  106  stations  in  commercial  in- 
stitutions, 958  small  libraries  in  chil- 
dren's institutions,  classes  for  foreign- 
ers, and  so  on.  Portland,  Oregon,  and 
Minneapolis  are  the  other  two  large 
cities  with  women  at  the  head  of  their 
library  systems. 

Women  are  also  to  be  found  doing 
other  interesting  things  in  the  library 
world.  Several  state  library  commis- 
sions are  run  by  them.  North  Carolina, 
New  Jersey  and  Oregon  offer  us  exam- 
ples. In  the  Yale  University  Library 
two  of  the  department  chiefs  are  women. 
The  reference  department  at  Columbia 
is  also  under  the  direction  of  a  woman. 
Work  with  children  and  hospital  libra- 
ries fall  to  their  lot  almost  exclusively, 
Library  work  with  its  modern  ideals 
and  outlooks  has  a  great  need  of  college 
trained  women.  It  also  has  much  to 
offer  them  in  return.  A  bewildering 
mass  of  details  and  routine,  long   and 


expensive  training  and  a  rather  low 
salary  schedule,  are  the  arguments  usu- 
ally offered  as  the  reasons  against  choos- 
ing librarianship  as  a  vocation.  All 
three  of  these  contentions,  as  in  the 
case  of  most  other  contentions,  are  based 
upon  premises  partially  true  and  par- 
tially false.  That  there  is  a  mass  of 
details  and  routine  connected  with  the 
work  is  an  actuality.  An  unusually  re- 
vealing contact  with  people  and  human 
nature,  the  congenial  atmosphere  of 
books,  a  real  opportunity  for  a  con- 
structive bit  of  social  service  are  actual- 
ities likewise.  A  nice  balance  between 
the  mechanical  and  inspirational  sides 
can  be  found  and  maintained  if  one 
cares  to  seek  for  it. 

For  a  college  bred  girl,  the  formal 
training  is  not  disproportionally  long. 
Graduate  work  is  growing  to  be  more  or 
less  of  a  necessity  in  practically  all 
lines  of  professional  work.  The  year  or 
tAvo  spent  in  a  library  school  is  just  an 
equivalent  in  the  matter  of  time.  In  the 
matter  of  subsequent  advancement,  the 
time  thus  spent  is  more  than  redeemed 
in  the  curtailment  of  the  period  devoted 
to  the  gaining  of  practical  experience. 

To  the  girl  who  is  primarily  inter- 
ested in  making  money  and  has  a  talent 
in  that  direction,  the  library  world  has 
few  favors  with  which  to  tempt  her. 
Some  of  the  positions  do  command  sub- 
stantial salaries,  but  most  of  these  are 
tantalizingly  near  the  top  rounds  of  the 
ladder.  The  average  ones  are  very  mod- 
est. As  a  whole  they  are  on  a  par  with 
those  of  teaching,  showing,  however,  a 
gratifying  tendency  to  increase  in  pro- 
portion to  a  groAvth  in  library  conscious- 
ness. 

In  the  development  and  unfolding  of 
the  modern  library  movement,  the  de- 
mand for  library-trained  college  women 
Avill  become  greater  and  more  urgent. 
In  the  South  the  movement  is  especially 
new — the  potential  field  of  activity  wide 
and  still  in  the  experimental  stage. 
Here  is  an  opportunity  for  constructive 


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service  in  a  vocation,  not  gilt-edge  j)er- 

haps,  but  one  that  oTfers  a  deep  satis- 
faction. 

"In  good  sooth,  my  masters,  this  is  no 

door. 

Yet   it  is  a  little   window  that  looketh 

upon  a  great  world." 


INTRODUCING  THE  NEW 
MEMBERS  OF  THE  FACULTY 

Dr.  Ruth  Collings,  A.B.  Pomona  Col- 
lege, M.D.,  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
associate  resident  physician  with  offices 
in  the  Infirmary.  Dr.  Collings  served 
her  interneship  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania. 

Marilyn  Emond,  one  of  the  new  in- 
structors in  the  department  of  physical 
education.  She  holds  a  B.S.  degree 
from  Syracuse  University  and  a  certifi- 
cate of  hygiene  and  physical  education 
from  Wellesley  College. 

Annie  L.  Gibson,  formerly  professor 
of  Public  School  Music,  Kansas  State 
Teachers  College,  is  instructing  in  Pub- 
lic School  Music  here.  She  received  her 
training  at  Northwestern  University. 

Helen  Green,  A.B.  and  A.M.,  Stan- 
ford University,  student  councillor  in 
East,  Gotten  and  Kirkland  dormitories. 
Formerly  research  assistant  in  the  phys- 
iology department  of  Stanford  and  later 
teacher  of  biology  and  assistant  to  the 
principal  in  the  Marlborough  School, 
Los  Angeles. 

Rene  Hardre,  associate  professor  of 
French  in  the  department  of  Romance 
Languages.  He  has  degrees  and  cer- 
tificates from  several  French  schools 
and  universities,  and  his  teaching  ex- 
perience includes  professorships  in  the 
College  of  Dinan,  France,  the  Techni- 
cal School  for  Boys,  Beauvais,  the  Nor- 
mal School  for  Women,  Beauvais,  Mid- 
dleburg  College. 

Ashton  Hatcher,  B.S.  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, supervisor  of  the  first  grade  in 
the  training  school.  She  formerly 
taught  in  the  public  schools  of  Virginia 
and  was  grad^  supervisor  and  assistant 


professor  of  education.  State  Teachers 
College,   Fredericksburg,   Va. 

Lillian  Killingsworth,  A.B.  Erskine 
College,  graduate  work  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, student  councillor  in  charge  of 
Spencer.  Miss  Killingsworth  came  to 
us  from  her  position  as  dean  of  students 
in  the  Greensboro  High  School.  I^re- 
vious  to  that  time  she  had  been  hf-ad 
of  the  English  Department  and  lad\' 
principal  in  the  Gary  High  School,  and 
later  head  of  the  English  Department 
in  the  Greensboro  High  School. 

Kathrine  Matson,  A.B.  University  of 
South  Dakota,  A.M.  University  of  Min- 
nesota, and  formerly  a  member  of  the 
facult}^  in  each  of  these  institutions,  is 
one  of  the  new  instructors  in  the  French 
department. 

Meta  H.  Miller,  Ph.  D.  Johns  Hop- 
kins University,  has  returned  to  the 
college  after  a  year's  leave  of  absence 
which  she  spent  in  Paris  studying. 
While  abroad  she  also  had  her  thesis 
published,  the  subject  being  "Chateau- 
briand and  English  Literature." 

Grace  Van  Dyke  More  became  head 
of  the  department  of  Public  School 
]\Iusic  in  place  of  Miss  Bivens,  who  re- 
signed to  join  the  faculty  of  Columbia 
University.  Miss  j\Iore  is  graduate  in 
piano  of  the  School  of  Music.  University 
of  Denver,  holds  the  degree  of  B.  Mus. 
from  the  University  of  Illinois,  and  has 
done  special  work  at  Colorado  College 
and  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  She 
has  had  wide  experience,  both  as  in- 
structor and  supervisor  of  music  in  Kan- 
sas and  Illinois. 

Emily  Abbie  Perry,  B.A.  '22.  Uni- 
versity of  Oregon  and  certificate  of  De- 
partment of  Hygiene  and  Physical  Edu- 
cation, Wellesley  College.  '25.  is  an  in- 
structor in  the  Department  of  Physical 
Education. 

Veva  U.  Playfoot,  B.S.  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, formerly  teacher  and  superAdsor 
of  Home  Economics  in  Warren,  Ohio, 
and  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  respec- 
tively, is  an  instructor  in  the  depart- 
ment of  Home  Economics. 


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Helen  Robinson,  B.S.  University  of 
Wisconsin,  with  experience  in  camp  and 
playground,  work,  is  an  instructor  in  the 
Department  of  Physical  Education. 

Anne  Shamburger,  Guilford  College, 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  School  of 
Public  Health  and  Hygiene,  is  instruct- 
ing in  the  Department  of  Health.  Her 
previous  experience  includes  Peace  In- 
stitute and  the  Mississippi  State  Col- 
lege for  Women. 

Margaret  Shepard,  B.S.  Northwestern 
University;  Normal  Diploma,  Georgia 
State  College  for  Women;  Certificate, 
National  Training  School  of  the  Y.  W. 
C.  A.,  New  York,  is  General  Secretary 
of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  She  was  formerly 
general  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Secretary  at  Geor- 
gia State,  Associate  Secretary  at  North- 
western, and  General  Secretary,  Univer- 
sity of  Pittsburgh.  She  succeeds  Vera 
Ward  Peacock,  '21,  who  resigned  to  be 
married. 


Dorothea  Sorenson,  B.A.  State  Col- 
lege of  Washington,  instructor  in  Phys- 
ical Education.  She  formerly  taught 
in  Anatone  and  Almira  High  Schools, 
Washington. 

Dorothy  Wolff,  A.B.  Swift  College, 
Normal  School  diploma,  Shippensburg, 
Pa.,  assistant  professor  of  Physiology. 
]Miss  Wolff  was  formerly  laboratory  as- 
sistant at  Mt.  Holyoke  College,  instruc- 
tor in  Biology,  Women's  College,  Uni- 
versity of  Delaware  and  in  Wilson  Col- 
lege, and  later  laboratory  technician, 
Johns  Hopkins  Hospital. 

Doris  E.  Wright,  former  instructor 
of  violin,  harmony  and  composition  at 
]\Iaryland  College  for  Women,  is  in- 
structor here  in  violin  and  harmony. 
She  holds  a  violin  teacher's  certificate 
and  harmony  certificate  from  Peabody 
Conservatory. 

Alice  E,.  Buckner,  A.B.  Hollins  Col- 
lege, and  Ethel  Boozer  have  been  added 
to  the  secretarial  force. 


Some  North  Carolina  Problems: 
Solved  and  Unsolved 


By  Harriet  M.  Berry 


(The  following  article  is  in  substance  the 
talk  given  by  Miss  Berry,  upon  invitation  of 
the  Committee  on  Chapel  Programs,  to  the 
students  and  faculty  at  the  Assembly  Hour, 
Friday,  November  20th.  Miss  Berry  grad- 
iiated  with  a  Blue  and  White  class,  and  at 
the  conclusion  of  her  address,  the  freshmen — 
the  Blue  and  Wliite  class  now  on  the  campus 
— rose,  and  led  by  their  cheer  leader,  gave 
three  ringing  cheers  for  "Blue  and  White 
and  Berry!  "  Harriet  Berry's  service  to  North 
Carolina  as  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Good 
Eoads  Association  is  too  thoroughly  known 
and  appreciated  to  require  any  comment  here. 
She  is  still  in  public  service  with  the  State 
Department  of  Agriculture,  and  among  other 
things  is  editing  "Market  News,"  a  much 
alive   weekly.) 

A  knoAvledge  of  the  resources,  prob- 
lems and  progress  of  our  state,  town  or 
county,  has  a  very  direct  bearing  on  our 
own  life  and  work.  Having  acquired 
training    necessarv    to    make    effective 


whatever  talents  or  preferences  with 
\\^hich  nature  may  have  endowed  us,  the 
next  step  is  the  selection  of  some  lo- 
calit}^  AA'ith  which  we  may  identify  our- 
selves and  our  fortunes.  An  extremely 
important  matter  this. 

]\Iany  of  you  will  likely  return  to  your 
native  town,  county  and  state  and  be- 
come an  integral  part  of  the  life  of  your 
home  community ;  others  may  go  to  new 
communities  within  the  state  to  work 
or  to  make  a  home ;  and  some  few  will 
wander  into  foreign  fields.  Wherever 
you  go,  you  will  find  problems  of  the 
neighborhood,  of  the  town  or  city,  of 
the  county  and  of  the  state  of  vital  in- 
terest to  you  in  common  with  your  fel- 
low  citizens.      I   want    to   talk   to   you. 


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therefore,  a  little  while  this  morning 
about  your  state  and  some  of  its  prob- 
lems which  are  in  the  way  of  being 
solved  and  others  that  are  crying  for 
solution.  It  is  of  special  interest  to  me 
to  do  this  because  1  believe  it  will  rest 
largely  with  the  young  men  and  young 
women  who  are  now  passing  through  our 
colleges  and  universities  as  to  whether 
many  of  the  problems  now  confronting 
us  will  be  solved  wisely  and  well.  I 
cannot  impress  upon  each  of  you  too 
strongly  that  while  you  want  to  develop 
yourself  to  the  fullest  as  an  individual, 
you  must  not  be  unmindful  of  your  life 
as  a  citizen,  if  the  most  desirable  re- 
sults are  to  be  attained. 

About  five  years  ago  North  Carolina 
waked  up  to  the  fact  that  she  is  really 
a  state  and  not  merely  a  collection  of 
counties.  Previous  to  that  time  we  had 
not  begun  to  think  in  terms  of  state- 
wide initiative  and  statewide  benefits. 
It  is  true  we  had  certain  state  insti- 
tutions to  which  we  had  been  doling 
out  insignificant  sums  for  expansion 
and  maintenance ;  but  their  benefits 
were  available  to  but  a  very  small  per- 
centage of  our  citizens.  Perhaps  the 
first  real  state  undertaking  was  the  law 
passed  in  1921  establishing  the  State 
Highway  System,  connecting  all  the 
county  seats  and  the  principal  towns 
of  the  state,  to  be  constructed,  main- 
tained and  absolutely  controlled  by 
the  State.  This  movement  was  brought 
about  through  the  work  and  initiative, 
over  a  long  period  of  time,  of  a  small 
group  of  citizens,  the  North  Carolina 
Good  Roads  Association,  who  were  will- 
ing to  give  their  time  and  thought  and 
energy  toward  the  accomplishment  of 
a  great  public  benefit. 

The  beginning  of  our  State  Highway 
System  was  due  to  the  fact  that  this 
group  had  a  practical  plan  of  opera- 
tion ;  that  they  conducted  an  intensive 
campaign  of  education  by  which  the  at- 
tention of  the  people  throughout  the 
state  was  focused  upon  this  plan ;  and 
that  they  had  a  working  organization, 
covering    the    entire    state,    which    was 


able  to  impress  the  lawmakers  with  the 
power  and  momentum  of  organized  pub- 
lic opinion.  So  strong  was  this  organi- 
zation that  the  law  worked  out  by  the 
North  Carolina  Good  Roads  Associa- 
tion and  presented  to  the  1921  Legisla- 
ture, calling  for  a  fifty  million  dollar 
bond  issue,  for  the  granting  of  greater 
powers  than  had  ever  before  been  ac- 
corded a  state  department,  and  for  the 
levying  of  taxes  sufficient  to  carry 
through  the  project,  was  passed  with 
very  little  opposition. 

The  result  of  the  passage  of  this  law 
has  been  far-reaching  and  beyond  ex- 
pectations of  the  most  sanguine  pro- 
ponents of  the  measure.  The  working 
out  of  this  plan  is  attracting  nation- 
wide attention  to  North  Carolina  as  a 
progressive  state. 

Another  result  of  this  expansion  of 
public  consciousness  to  the  possibilities 
for  public  service  of  the  state  as  a  unit, 
was  that  the  educational  forces  organ- 
ized and  came  forward  with  a  program 
which  has  gone  far  toward  placing  our 
public  instruction  in  line  with  other 
progressive  states  of  the  Union.  The 
movement  for  state  highways  as  well 
as  the  expansion  of  our  state  educational 
and  eleemosynary  institutions  was  large- 
ly due  to  the  work  of  individual  citi- 
zens and,  to  my  mind,  clearly  demon- 
strates the  modus  operandi  for  attain- 
ing any  great  public  benefit.  If  this  be 
true,  then  the  future  of  our  state  de- 
pends upon  the  number  and  quality  of 
citizens  we  can  produce  who  are  willing 
to  make  contributions  of  thought  and 
energy  to  the  public  weal. 

There  are  two  other  problems  which 
I  wish  to  call  to  your  attention  this 
morning  and  I  believe  the  future  growth 
and  prosperity  of  the  state  depend 
largely  upon  their  intelligent  solution. 
North  Carolina  is  essentially  an  asrri- 
cultural  state.  We  have  more  capital 
tied  up  in  farms  and  farm  equipment 
than  we  have  in  manufacturing ;  sixty- 
five  to  seventy  percent  of  our  people 
are  rural  folk.  Our  soil,  climate  and 
geographical  location  should  gi^'e  us  an 


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advantage  over  most  of  our  sister  states 
in  our  returns  from  this  source.  In 
spite  of  the  many  boasts  as  to  our  great 
natural  resources  made  by  many  well- 
meaning  people  and  periodicals,  we 
must  recognize  the  fact  that  we  do  not 
have  the  oil  wells,  the  coal  fields,  the 
gold  mines  or  other  natural  sources  of 
wealth  which  fill  the  coffers  of  many 
other  states.  We  do  have  our  soil,  our 
climate,  our  waterpowers;  some  forests 
are  still  left;  and  there  are  the  coast 
fisheries.  To  capitalize  on  any  one  of 
these  requires  energy,  initiative  and  the 
investment  of  capital  on  the  part  of 
our  people.  So  that,  in  the  final  analy- 
sis, whatever  we  may  hope  to  do  de- 
pends largely  on  the  efficiency  and 
energy  of  our  people. 

In  order  that  our  people  may  be  able 
to  compete  in  this  world  of  highly  spe- 
cialized competition,  they  must  have 
training,  knowledge  and  experierce 
commensurate  with  their  competitors. 
The  training  now  being  offered  by  our 
public  school  system,  especially  among 
the  country  folk,  is  not  on  a  parity  with 
that  of  many  of  the  states  who  are  our 
competitors  in  the  great  market  centers. 
Our  farm  folk,  especially  in  the  great 
agricultural  area  of  the  coastal  plain, 
have  not  learned  the  principles  of  co- 
operative   effort    such    as    has    brought 


wonderful  results  to  the  fruit  and  truck 
growers  of  the  west.  They  are  still 
struggling  in  the  clutches  of  a  vicious 
and  outworn  credit  system  which  is 
annually  exacting  a  tremendous  toll 
from  their  meagre  income.  They  have 
not  learned  the  economic  soundness  of 
group  marketing  and  purchasing  of  sup- 
plies. They  have  not  learned  what  to 
grow  and  how  to  market  it ;  nor  that 
they  must  cater  to  the  market  demands 
in  choosing  their  crops  or  varieties  of 
certain  commodities.  In  short,  they 
have  not  learned  to  operate  their  farms 
on  a  business  basis.  It  is  up  to  the  pub- 
lic school  system,  to  the  colleges,  to  the 
agricultural  forces,  to  lead  these  country 
boys  and  girls  as  well  as  their  parents 
into  more  enlightened  and  up-to-date 
methods  and  to  economic  freedom.  It 
is  up  to  all  of  us  to  see  that  the  state 
furnishes  the  means  whereby  these 
country  boys  and  girls  are  given  educa- 
tional oportunities  commensurate  with 
those  being  accorded  their  city  cousins. 
They  are  to  be  the  producers  of  raw 
products  upon  the  basis  of  which  all 
other  activities  must  rest.  Our  edu- 
cational problem  and  our  agricultural 
problem  are  mutually  dependent  and 
the  future  progress  and  prosperity  of 
the  state  will  depend  upon  a  wise  solu- 
tion of  them  both. 


The  Bulletin  Board 


ATHLETICS.  Athletics  has  had  a  rather 
busy  program  this  fall,  some  of  the  events 
being  the  final  soccer  game  played  on  Novem- 
ber 20th  for  the  championship  between  the 
freshmen  and  the  juniors.  The  upper  class- 
men didn't  exert  themselves  unduly,  as  they 
already  had  more  points  to  their  credit  than 
any  other  class;  the  freshmen  did  show  some 
speed,  however,  with  the  result  that  the  jun- 
iors made  only  one  goal  against  their  young 
opponents.  *  *  *  On  Saturday  afternoon, 
November  9th,  the  first  hockey  contests  of 
the  season  were  played.  There  was  a  drizzle 
of  rain,  the  field  was  slippery;  but  there  was 
also  a  good  crowd  of  loyal  •classmates  and 
other  spectators.     The  juniors  and  the  fresh- 


men struggled  for  supremacy;  the  sophomores 
and  the  seniors.  Both  underclassmen  teams 
put  up  a  good  fight,  but  in  the  end  they 
gave  way  to  their  longer  and  better  trained 
opponents.  *  *  *  The  next  week  the  jun- 
iors and  sophomores  struggled  against  each 
other.  Score,  2-0  in  favor  of  the  juniors.  The 
seniors  played  against  the  freshmen.  Score, 
7-1  in  favor  of  the  seniors.  This  ended  the 
preliminary  skirmish.  *  *  *  The  champion- 
ship game  on  November  21st  was,  therefore, 
a  tug  of  war  between  the  seniors  and  jun- 
iors. The  teams  were  evenly  matched.  And 
the  game  was  a  thriller  from  beginning  to 
end,  excellent  technique  showing  throughout. 
It   finished   with   a   score   of   1-0   in   favor    of 


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the  seniors.  Immediately  after  the  champion- 
ship game  the  sophomores  and  freshmen  went 
to  battle.  The  sophomores  were  temporarily 
thrown  off  their  feet  by  the  freshmen  on- 
slaught, but  recovered  themselves  in  time  to 
leave  the  game  a  tie,  which  under  present 
regulations  will  not  be  played  off. 

CHAPEL.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  Taylor, 
missionaries  from  China,  spoke  at  tlie  Friday 
chapel  hour  during  October.  Both  J3r.  and 
Mrs.  Taylor  made  a  deep  impression  ui^on 
their  hearers.  *  *  *  Dj-.  Elbert  Russell, 
Director  of  Eeligious  Education,  Swarthmore 
College,  addressed  the  students  and  faculty 
at  a  Friday  chapel  hour  early  in  November 
on  conditions  in  Germany  as  he  has  observed 
them  on  his  recent  visit  to  universities  in  the 
Far  East,  in  Germany  and  in  Austria.  In 
Germany  only  those  of  the  "higher  classes" 
are  able  to  attend  the  universities;  whereas 
in  America  all  classes  are  represented.  How- 
ever, the  university  group  is  the  most  con- 
servative. He  feels  that  the  main  powers  in 
Germany  today  are  the  young  people  and 
the  working  folk.  *  *  *  t.  W.  Andrews, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  High  Point,  opened 
the  observation  of  National  Education  Week 
at  the  college  early  in  November  with  an 
excellent  talk  on  the  Constitution.  While  he 
upheld  the  greatness  of  this  ancient  guar- 
antee of  American  liberty,  he  would  have 
us  believe  that  it  is  not  the  last  word;  that 
we  have  found  it  necessary  in  order  to  meet 
changing  conditions  to  amend  it  several  times 
and  will  find  it  necessary  to  change  it  again. 
In  defining  democracy,  the  speaker  said,  ' '  The 
weakess  of  a  democracy  is  its  inability  to 
make  up  its  mind  quickly  and  to  strike  with 
precision.  Its  glory  is  this:  when  it  makes 
up  its  mind,  its  decision  is  on  the  side  of 
justice."  Mrs.  Andrews  (Eleanor  Watson, 
'00)  accompanied  her  husband.  We  were 
happy  to  have  them  both.  *  *  *  Gladys 
Campbell,  '25,  soprano,  gave  a  distinctly 
pleasing  song  recital  at  a  Friday  chapel  hour 
in     November.       Miss     Minor     accompanied. 

*  *  *  Rabbi  Ellis,  of  Temple  Emanuel, 
Greensboro,  was  another  interesting  chapel 
hour  speaker  during  November.  He  felt  that 
the  great  tragedy  of  religion  was  the  divi- 
sion in  the  church,  that  it  had  wasted  its 
strength  in  selfish  bickerings  over  non-essen- 
tials. He  also  impressed  upon  the  students 
his  idea  of  the  chief  purpose  of  a  college 
education — the  release  of  one 's  own  initia- 
tive. *  *  *  George  Thompson,  organist, 
gave  a  recital  in  the  auditorium  the  last  of 
October.  He  played  half  a  dozen  beautiful 
and  powerful  selections,  the  "Song  of  the 
Volga  Boatman"  making  the  strongest  ap- 
peal   to    his    student    and    faculty    listeners. 

*  *  *  A.  T.  Allen,  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  was  a  chapel  hour  speaker 


on  I'uosday,  November  17th,  his  subject  being, 
"The  Development  of  the  Rural  High  School 
in  North  Carolina."  He  made  a  strong  jjlea 
for  an  eight  months  term.  »  »  *  The  last 
week  iti  November  Miss  Elliott  talked  in 
chapel  on  "The  World  Court."  She  gave 
something  of  its  history,  interpreted  its  Jjur- 
pose,  answered  objections,  and  urged  the  duty 
of  the  United  States  to  enter.  »  *  »  Argu- 
ments for  and  against  entrance  into  the  World 
Court  were  advanced  in  a  spirited  student  de- 
bate at  Friday  chapel  early  in  December. 
Later  the  students  were  polled  in  the  dormi- 
tories for  their  decision,  the  results  being  1.5-1 
favorable  to  entrance.  *  *  *  The  last  day 
in  November,  Rev.  H.  L.  Canfield,  pastor  of 
the  Universalist  Church,  Greensboro,  spoke. 
' '  The  Gospel  taught  by  Jesus  is  a  social  gos- 
pel, applicable  to  life — not  a  thing  of  the 
stars,  but  of  the  streets."  *  *  *  During 
December,  George  Thompson,  organist,  ap- 
peared in  his  second  recital  and  as  usual  had 
an  audience  both  sympathetic  and  apprecia- 
tive. *  *  *  E<iith  Moore,  sister  of  Gen- 
evieve Moore,  '16,  gave  a  costume  recital  at 
the  college  on  the  first  Friday  after  our  re- 
turn from  Christmas  vacation.  Charming  in 
her  antebellum  hoop  skirts,  dainty  slippers, 
and  black  ribbon  wristlets,  she  rendered  a 
progi'am  consisting  chiefly  of  folk-songs,  negro 
spirituals  and  other  old  tunes.  *  *  *  Rev. 
G.  Ray  Jordan,  pastor  of  College  Place  Meth- 
odist Church,  gave  as  his  new  year's  mes- 
sage to  the  students  this  thought:  that  no 
church  which  shuts  itself  up  narrowly,  indi- 
vidually, selfishly,  dogmatically,  theologically, 
or  which  served  only  souls  and  not  society, 
could   survive  or  had  the  right  to   do  so. 

CLUBS.  The  Botanical  Club,  at  its  first 
meeting,  elected  new  officers.  Last  year  the 
club  set  out  many  different  kinds  of  plants 
in  the  college  park.  The  state  forester  at- 
tended some  of  the  meetings  and  gave  advice 
about  plants.  One  purpose  of  the  club  is 
to  make  true  the  statement  that  concerning 
plants  one  can  drive  from  Florida  to  Canada 
by  going  across  the  state  of  North  Carolina. 
*  *  *  At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Chem- 
istry Club  during  October  one  of  the  stu- 
dents told  a  most  attractive  story.  ' '  The 
Atoms  Had  a  Party."  There  were  other  in- 
teresting features  and  discussions,  among 
which  was  an  account  of  the  visit  made  by 
Miss  Wright,  Miss  Barrow  and  Miss  Petty, 
of  the  Chemistry  faculty,  to  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  on  the  occasion  of  the 
opening  of  the  new  Venable  Chemistry  Build- 
ing. *  *  *  Le  Cercle  Francais  held  a  meet- 
ing the  middle  of  October,  when  it  was 
voted  to  divide  the  club  into  two  divisions, 
the  seniors  and  the  juniors.  In  the  senior 
club,  French  only  is  spoken.  In  the  junior 
club  are  inchided  those  who  are  interested  in 


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French,  but  who  do  not  care  to  speak  it  at 
all  the  meetings.  *  *  *  The  Education 
Club  initiated  a  large  number  of  new  mem- 
bers at  its  mid-November  meeting.  A  mu- 
sical program  followed  and  refreshments  were 
served.  *  *  *  The  German  Club  met  the 
middle  of  November,  devoting  itself  chiefly 
to  the  learning  and  singing  of  German  folk 
songs.  At  its  last  meeting  before  the  holi- 
days new  members  were  initiated.  *  *  * 
Home  Economics  Art  Club  decided  at  its  fii-st 
meeting  in  October  to  have  bi-monthly  assem- 
blies, at  which  time  reports  on  art  and  vari- 
ous subjects  pertaining  to  Home  Economics 
were  given.  *  *  *  The  Phoenix  Club  held 
a  business  meeting  in  the  Music  Building 
early  in  November.  At  its  conclusion  IMSss 
Miore,  head  of  the  department  of  Public 
School  Music,  directed  practice  for  the  re- 
maining part  of  the  hour.  At  its  second  meet- 
ing the  club  again  practiced  songs.  At  its 
last  assembly  before  the  holidays,  club  pins 
were  selected.  Miss  More  also  led  a  discus- 
sion as  to  the  probability  of  giving  several 
concerts    in    the    county    during    the    spring. 

*  *  *  The  Young  Voters'  Club  (formerly 
International  Eolations  Club)  transacted  bus- 
iness at  its  first  meeting,  and  later  heard 
George  Collins,  Secretary  of  the  Fellowship 
of  Eeeonciliation,  speak  on  "Africa's  Con- 
tribution to  Civilization."  At  its  meeting 
early  in  November,  on  the  suggestion  of  Miss 
Elliott,  the  club  changed  its  name  to  the 
Young  Voters'  Club,  an  organization  affili- 
ated with  the  National  League  of  W'omen 
Voters.  The  club  also  decided  to  study  this 
year  political  issues  in  the  United  States, 
keeping  in  mind,  however,  the  international 
idea.  *  *  *  At  a  later  meeting  held  in  the 
Library  a  report  on  the  World  Court  Con- 
ference held  in  Durham  was  heard  and  dis- 
cussed. Plans  for  the  initiation  of  new  mem- 
bers were  presented.  *  *  *  Zoology  Field 
Club  initiated  twenty-nine  new  members  at 
its  meeting  on  November  5th.  Later  they 
had  a  hike  and  a  ride  out  to  the  Scales 
Farm,  where  supper  was  cooked  over  the 
camp  fire. 

CONFERENCES.  The  North  Carolina  Col- 
legiate World  Court  Conference  met  at  I>uke 
University  the  last  of  October  and  was  at- 
tended   by    five    students    from    this    college. 

*  *  *  Notable  speakers  guided  the  thought 
of  the  young  people  along  such  subjects  as 
these:  "The  Growing  Unity  of  the  World", 
"The  Psychology  of  the  World  Situation", 
"Military  Preparedness",  "The  World 
Court"  '"'The  Causes  of  War",  "Our  Campus 
Program  in  the  World  Court."  *  *  * 
Kathrjni  Sherrill  and  Glenn  Yarborough,  Stu- 
dent Government  President  and  Secretary, 
respectively,  attended  the  National  Student 
Government  Association  which  met  this  year 


at  Wellesley  College.  *  *  *  The  teachers 
of  the  Northwestern  District  of  the  North 
Carolina  Education  Association  held  their  an- 
nual meeting  at  the  college  last  fall.  Pres- 
ident Foust  welcomed  the  assemblage  in  the 
name  of  the  college  that  was  founded  for  the 
proper  training  of  teachers.  Despite  the  bad 
weather,  there  was  a  large  attendance,  many 
of  our  own  family  among  them.  The  Asso- 
ciation was  the  guest  of  the  college  at  dinner 
Friday  night  in  South  Dining  Hall. 

LECTURES.  George  Collins,  Secretary  of 
the  Fellowship  of  Eeeonciliation,  delivered 
,a  series  of  three  lectures  during  October. 
On  Sunday  morning  the  subject  of  his  exposi- 
tion was,  "A  Philosophy  of  Life  for  Today." 
The  fundamental  life  philosophy  of  Jesus 
was  that  of  brotherly  love,  a  philosophy  the 
-  world  needs  today  as  never  before.  Sunday 
night  he  gave  his  conception  of  the  difference 
between  a  real  and  a  formal  religion.  The 
formal  element  represented  by  externals — sac- 
rifices, public  prayers,  tithing,  washing  of 
feet,  etc.;  the  real  by  the  identification  of 
one's  self  with  unpopular  and  unselfish  ideas. 
At  chapel  hour  on  Monday  he  urged  the 
"Wage  of  Peace."  He  showed  that  a  new 
war  is  truly  imminent,  and  that  the  methods 
of  the  last  war  are  already  antiquated.  War 
would  be  suicide  and  he  urged  such  remedial 
agencies  as  the  League  of  Nations  and  the 
World  Court.  *  *  *  Grace  Van  Dyke 
More,  new  head  of  the  department  of  Pub- 
lic School  Music,  gave  a  comprehensive  sur- 
vey of  musical  progress  in  the  public  schools 
in  the  United  Spates  to  the  faculty  and  stu- 
dents of  the  music  department,  the  lecture 
taking  place  in  the  Concert  Hall  of  the 
Music  Building.  *  *  *  John  Drinkwater, 
British  poet  and  dramatist,  appeared  on  the 
Lecture  and  Eecital  Course,  October  28th, 
and  gave  a  delightful  address  on  "Poetry  and 
Life."  He  felt  that  most  human  beings  are 
throughout  life  engaged  in  an  attempt  to 
master  their  experience  and  formulate  a 
philosophy  of  life.  Art,  in  the  form  of 
poetry,  is  born  in  order  to  shape  this  experi- 
ence, illuminate  it  and  brace  us.  Illustrating 
his  comments  he  read  and  interpreted  a  num-. 
ber  of  his  own  poems.  *  *  *  Alexander 
Meiklejohn,  former  President  of  Amherst 
College,  captured  his  audience  in  a  most  pen- 
etrating address  to  students  and  faculty  on 
January  8th,  his  subject  being,  "Thinking  in 
a  Democracy. ' '  Thinking  in  a  democracy 
should  be  done  by  all,  decisions  made  by  all; 
and  whatever  good  things  there  are  should 
be  open  to  all  people.  There  is  much  con- 
fusion in  thinking  in  America,  however,  no- 
where more  evident  than  in  the  church  and 
the  school.  At  the  conclusion  of  his  talk,  an 
open  forum  was  announced  and  a  rapid  fire 
of  questions  from   the  fioor  followed. 


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THE  PLAYLIKEES.  "Tlie  PlaylikciH 
scored  their  first  success  of  the  season  Sat- 
urday night,  November  6th,  when  they  pre- 
sented Kilpatrick's  'The  Book  of  Charm'" 
— so  proclaimed  the  newspapers.  Practically 
all  the  seats  in  the  house  have  been  sold  for 
season  tickets  this  year.  Therefore  the  crowd 
was  large.  It  was  also  appreciative.  And 
both  of  these  conditions  helped  the  players 
considerably.  The  play  is  a  delightful  com- 
edy. The  cast  was  composed  of  both  fac- 
ulty men  and  students.  *  *  *  Three  one- 
act  plays,  "Everybody's  Husband",  "  'Op- 
0 '-Me-Thumb",  and  "Beauty  and  the  Jaco- 
bin ' ',  were  the  three  plays  presented  in  the 
Auditorium  on  December  12th.  On  the  whole 
the  entire  bill  was  well  rendered.  *  *  * 
The  third  performance,  announced  for  March, 
win  be  an  original  play,  ' '  Blue  Diamonds, ' ' 
written  by  L.  B.  Hurley,  of  the  department 
of  English.  It  is  a  mystery  composition  on 
the  order  of  "The  Bat",  conceived  and  partly 
written  by  Mr.  Hurley  while  studying  at 
Columbia.  Mien 's  parts  will  be  taken  by  men 
of  the  faculty.  Students  are  trying  out  for 
the    women 's    parts. 

RECITALS.  The  English  Singers,  com- 
posed of  three  men  and  three  women,  pre- 
sented a  unique  program  on  November  9th, 
consisting  of  madrigals,  canzonets  and  bal- 
lets. They  were  unaccompanied.  The  pro- 
gram was  divided  into  several  groups.  The 
whole  thing  was  so  delightfully  different,  so 
harmonious,  that  the  Singers  were  obliged  to 
respond  to  many  encores. 

Y.  W.  C.  A.  A  Vesper  Service  speaker 
during  November  was  Miss  Katherine  Nor- 
man, who  gave  an  enlightening  discussion  of 


the  Hryn  Mawr  summer  session  for  girls  in 
industry.  She  was  ac<;ompanied  by  Margaret 
Heinsberger,  '22,  Industrial  Secretary  of  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.,  Durham,  and  Decie  Dowd,  a 
bagmakcr  of  Durham.  Miss  Norman  spoke 
of  the  fine  sympathy  and  understanding  that 
grew  out  of  this  association  of  young  college 
women  and  industrial  workers  of  practically 
every  race  and  creed.  *  »  »  ]y[r  Keister, 
of  the  Department  of  Economics,  spoke  at 
vesjjers  the  first  Sunday  evening  in  Novem- 
ber, his  subject  being,  "The  White  Peril  in 
the  Orient."  His  talk  centered  around  the 
recent  trouble  in  China  in  which  eleven  Chi- 
nese students  were  shot  by  British  officers. 
*  *  *  Thanksgiving  vesper  service  was 
conducted  on  the  Sunday  afterwards  and  con- 
sisted of  a  musical  j>rogram.  Favorites  among 
the  classics  predominated.  *  *  *  Dr.  Ken- 
drick,  at  a  later  vesper  hour  service,  defined 
the  problem  of  the  liberal  in  the  fundamental- 
ist community  as  one  of  tactfully,  kindly  and 
lovingly  trying  to  bring  those  about  him  to 
a  higher  level  of  religion.  *  *  *  Stephen 
Krishnaya,  a  student  from  India  now  study- 
ing at  Columbia  University,  spoke  on  ' '  Ghan- 
da's  Challenge  to  the  West."  At  the  close 
of  his  talk  there  was  an  open  forum  center- 
ing around  India  and  her  problems. 

MISCELLANEOUS.  As  all  the  world 
knows  the  Freshmen  are  the  little  sisters  of 
the  Juniors.  Nothing  incongruous,  however, 
was  noted  when  one  Saturday  afternoon  early 
in  October  the  wedding  of  Miss  Evva  Blue 
Freshman  and  Mr.  B.  A.  Happy,  .Junior,  oc- 
cured  in  the  Auditorium.  Nothing,  to  be 
sure,  could  so  surely  fix  in  the  minds  of  the 
two    classes   the   bonds   of   unity   existing   be- 


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tween  tliem.  And  so  we  raised  no  objection, 
but  solemnly  agreed  hereafter  to  hold  our 
peace!  The  wedding  was  one  of  the  usual 
beauty  and  simplicity.  The  usual  white  ca- 
thedral tapers,  palms,  ferns,  chrysanthemums; 
the  usual  ushers,  bridesmaids,  dame  of  honor, 
the  usual  father  (only  he  was  a  girl)  giv- 
ing away  the  white- veiled  bride;  the  usual 
wedding  music.  There  was,  however,  no  li- 
cense! But  the  ceremony  was  performed  by 
a  young  woman,  ingenious  enough  to  com- 
pose the  vows  according  to  the  desires  of 
the  couple!  We  hope  the  several  departures 
from  the  usual  state  of  things  will  have  no 
sad  effect  upon  the  happy  married  life  of 
the  j^oung  couple.  *  *  *  Hallowe'en  was 
celebrated  in  true  spook  fashion  by  the 
Alethians,  the  celebration  taking  place  in  the 
Tea  Eoom.  The  big  hall  had  been  trans- 
formed into  a  veritable  ghostly  den — pale 
and  pallid  figures,  grinning  jack-o-lanterns, 
the  yawning  black  caldron,  the  wicked  witch, 
dealing  out  fortunes  in  the  shape  of  cats  and 
pumpkins — it  was  all  there!  And  yet  never 
was  such  merriment,  such  utter  disregard  of 
an  atmosphere  so  terrifying  and  so  weird. 
And  never  better  eats  consumed  with  better 
relish.  *  *  *  A  new  record  for  hiking  was  made 
on  Thanksgiving  Day  by  eight  girls  who,  be- 
tween 8:45  a.  m.  and  6.  p.  m.  truged  to  Oak 
Eidge  and  back,  a  distance  of  thirty-six 
miles.  Their  Thanksgiving  dinner  was  a 
quick  lunch  at  the  Oak  Eidge  Cafeteria;  but 
one  would  venture  to  believe  that  no  repast 
of    the    Puritan    Fathers    ever    tasted    better. 


A  few  of  us  saw  the  game  at  Chapel  Hill 
and  ate  hungrily  the  hot  dogs  snatched  on 
the  wing.  But  by  far  the  many  of  us  en- 
joyed the  usual  Thanksgiving  dinner  in  the 
dining  hall  that  evening.  The  girls  in  their 
pretty,  gaily  colored  evening  dresses  were  the 
only  decorations.  On  every  table  there  was 
an  abundance  of  turkey  and  cranberry  sauce, 
with  all  the  rest  down  to  mince  pie,  nuts  and 
raisins.  Good  fellowship  flowed  and  over- 
flowed. *  *  *  A  group  of  foreign  students 
from  Columbia  University  visited  the  campus 
during  November.  They  came  from  the  ends 
of  the  earth,  from  Palestine  to  Eussia  and 
Norway.  These  students  were  leaders  in  edu- 
cational progress  in  their  own  countries  and 
are  studying  at  Columbia  University.  Their 
observation  tour  of  the  leading  southern  col- 
leges is  one  of  the  requirements  of  their  course 
there.  *  *  *  An  exhibit  of  etchings  and 
Japanese  prints  was  made  in  the  Documents 
Eoom  of  the  Library  the  2nd  of  November. 
Misses  Peterson  and  Schoch,  of  the  faculty, 
were  in  charge.  *  *  *  Pine  Needles  will 
this  year  be  dedicated  to  Dean  Wade  E.  Brown 
of  the  School  of  Music.  *  *  *  During  Oc- 
tober the  sophomores  were  at  home  in  their 
' '  Castle  in  Spain ' '  to  their  big  sisters,  the 
seniors.  ' '  Yes,  it 's  Spain, ' '  so  said  the  guests, 
when  they  stepped  into  the  transformed  Corne- 
lian and  Adelphian  Halls;  and  when  they  saw 
the  dances,  viewed  the  balcony  love  scene  and 
tasted  the  refreshments  served  by  the  Spanish 
waitresses,  again  they  said,  "Yes,  it's  truly 
Spain,  and  we  're  glad  we  're  here !  ' ' 


Faculty  Publications 


Equalization  of  the  Financial  Burden  of 
Education  Among  Counties  in  North  Carolina; 
a.  study  of  the  Equalising  Fund.  By  Fred  Wil- 
son Morrison,  Ph.  D.,  Associate  Professor  of 
Education.  Published  by  Teachers  College, 
Columbia  University,  1925.  Can  be  obtained 
direct  from  the  author  at  the  North  Carolina 
College  for  Women.  One  hundred  pages,  six 
chapters.     Price  $1.25. 

The  purpose  of  the  thesis  as  expressed 
in  the  opening  paragraph  "is  to  dis- 
cover a  basis  for  equalizing  the  financial 
burden  among  the  counties  of  North 
Carolina  in  the  support  of  a  minimum 
compulsory  educational  program  for  the 
state".  The  historical  evolution  of  the 
equalization  idea,  the  present  situation, 
and  recommendations  to  secure  equali- 
zation of  the  present  minimum  program 
are   all   fully   treated.       Comprehensive 


tabulations  showing  the  relative  prop- 
erty values  in  counties,  the  state  income 
taxes  paid,  school  enrollment,  and  other 
pertinent  comparisons  are  also  included. 
The  publication  will  be  especially  help- 
ful to  those  interested  in  the  triangular 
debating  union,  since  the  subject  of  the 
query  this  year  is,  "Resolved,  That 
North  Carolina  Should  Levy  a  State  Tax 
on  Property  to  Aid  in  the  Support  of 
an  Eight  Months  School  Term." 

Athletics  for  High  School  Girls.  Compiled 
and  edited  by  Mary  C.  Coleman,  Professor 
Physical  Education ;  member  National  Com- 
mittee on  Women's  Athletics;  and  Guy  B. 
Phillips,  Superintendent  of  Schools.  Salisbury; 
president  Girls'  High  School  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation. Published  by.  Extension  Division, 
North    Carolina    College    for    Women.       Sixty 


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pages.     1925.     Will    be    inailcfl    free    to    those 
interested. 

The  editors  hav(!  compiled,  organized, 
and  elucidated  the  best  material  that  has 
been  written  on  the  subject.  Rules 
governing  various  sports  (except  tennis 
and  swimming)  are  discussed;  eligi- 
bility ;  good  and  bad  sportmanship ; 
equipment ;  coaching  methods ;  points  in 
refereeing;  conduct  of  games  and  meets 
are  indicative  of  other  points  treated. 
' '  We  believe, ' '  say  the  editors,  ' '  that  far 
more  girls  are  injured  by  non-partici- 
pation than  by  participation  in  sports, 
and  that  the  remedy  lies  in  the  wise  and 
carefully  controlled  promotion  i-ather 
than  in  the  restriction  of  athletics  for 
girls.  Our  slogan  should  be  'A  game 
for  every  girl'  ". 

A.  Topical  Outline  of  American  Literature. 
By  Alonzo  C.  Hall,  Professor  of  English, 
Greensboro.  Harrison  Printing  Co.  1925.  244 
pages.     Bound   in   cloth. 

The  outline  grew  out  of  the  author's 
work  in  American  literature,  and  he 
generously  says,  "My  classes  have 
largely  made  the  book  what  it  is".  The 
outlines  are  grouped  around  the  various 
periods  in  American  literature,  begin- 
ning with  the  Colonial  and  extending 
through  the  later  National  Period.  His- 
torical and  biographical  backgi-ounds 
are  suggested,  oftentimes  by  a  mere 
word  or  two.  Interpretation,  in  the 
same  manner.  Questions  and  subjects 
under  each  heading  are  comprehensive 
and  stimulating.  Although  its  original 
purpose  was  for  classroom  use  yet  "it 
may  commend  itself  also  to  general 
readers  who  wish  to  do  independent 
study  in  the  field  of  American  Litera- 

^^^^•"  Sue  Ervin,  '24. 

Walls.  By  Forman  Brown.  A  small  book 
of  poems,  privately  printed.  The  pages  are 
deckle-edged;  bound  in  board,  covered  with 
black  and  orange  paper.  The  Book  Shop, 
Greensboro.     1925.     Price,   $1.50. 

The  author,  formerly  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan,  is  now  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor in  the  department  of  English. 
The  title  of  his  little  volume  is  most  en- 


ticing and  suggestive.  "Walls!"  What 
is  on  the  other  side?  Let's  explore! 
"Walls."  What  kind?  Where?  And 
so  we  open  the  book  and  are  led  still 
further  along  by  the  "contents":  Walls 
Surmountable,  Walls  Translucent,  Walls 
Transparent,  Walls  Inevitable,  and 
others.  One  critic,  appreciative  of  new 
and  noteworthy  literary  effort,  yet 
frankly  skeptical,  says:  "In  place  of 
the  usual  shellpink  offerings  of  thin 
volumes  of  verse  'privately  printed' 
there  are  honest  grays  and  golds;  in 
place  of  fancied  ills  an  actual  zest  in 
the  unriddling  of  life.  At  times  the  man 
even  does  a  pirouette!  AVe're  not  an- 
nouncing a  revolutionary  find,  but  we 
do  proclaim  that  Forman  Brown's 
Walls  is  a  first  book  of  more  than  usual 
promise,  that  the  verse  therein  argues 
a  capacity  which,  if  developed,  will 
make  him  a  figure  to  be  reckoned  with." 
Sue  Ervin,  '24. 

We  select  the  following  as  representa- 
tive of  Mr.  Brown's  work: 

IN  CHURCH 

The  shadows  in  the  church  were  dull  and  blue, 
The   organ   rumbled   faint   and   far   way ; 
Hands  over   eyes,   the  proper   way  to   pray, 
I  thought  upon  Divinity,  and  you. 
My  fingers  made  three  apertures,  and  through 
These  interlacings  like  a  wisp  of  spray 
Your  hand  appeared,  and  idly  fl.eeked  away 
Dust,   or  imagined   dust,  upon   the  pew. 

White  with  a  phosphorescent  whiteness  glowing 
Against  the  somber  russet  of  your  go^TIl, 
It  set  my  lips  unconsciously  a-going 
To  frame  an  image — lily,  thistle-down, 
Blown-foam,    plum-petal  —  while    you,    peeping 

out. 
Thought    ' '  Heavens !    what    has    made    him    so 

devout ! ' ' 


Dr.  L.  E.  Yocum,  of  the  department 
of  Biology,  has  recently  received  notice 
that  he  has  been  elected  to  honorary 
membership  as  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science.  Election  to  this  body  is  made 
each  year  of  a  limited  number  of  people 
who  are  recognized  as  contributing  to 
the  progress  of  science. 


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A  Page  of  Rhyme  and  Rhythm 


LITTLE  MISTER  STRAW-HAT 

Little  Mister  Straw-Hat  comes  trudging  down  the  street, 

Holding  close   a   worn,   plush  bear   and   short-stemmed  posies   sweet. 

Little  Mister  Straw- Hat,  standing  by  my  bed: 
"Here's  my  bear  I  bro 't  you,  and  flowers,  too",  he  said; 
' '  My  bear  '11  be  good  comp  'ny,  so  I  'm  going  to  let  him  stay, 
I  know  you  get  so  lonesome,  a-lying  here  all  day". 

Little  Mister  Straw-Hat,  playing    'round  my  room, 
A  precious  bit  of  brightness  like  a  vivid  flow'r  a-bloom; 
Talks  of  growny  gossip,  of  engines,  dogs  and  clocks — 
A  million  puzzling  queries  from  a  tiny  Question-Box. 

Little  Mister  Straw-Hat  goes  bobbing  down  the  lane; 
Please,  dear  Mister  Straw-Hat,  soon  come  back  again. 


-Lucy  Cherry  Crisp,  '19. 


LAWD,  HE  COULDN'T  MAKE  ME  LISSEN 


Lawd,  he  couldn't  make  me  lisseii 
When  he  had  some  things  ter  say; 

I  keep  gwine  bout  my  business, 
Gallavantin'   night   an'    day. 

Den  de  Lawd  he  knock  me  down,  suh. 
Laid  me  flat  right  in  de  bed; 

Doctor   come   an'   say:     "You  stay   dere 
'Less  you  wants  ter   git   up    dead". 


While  I 's  layin '   ca  'm   an  '    still-like, 
Lawd  he   come   an'   talk   ter   me. 

Talk   so's  I   could   understand    'im, 
'Twell  I  say:     "Yes,  Lawd,   I  see". 

Now   sometimes   I   get   ter   feelin' 

Mebbe  I's  gone   deef   ergiu; 
Den  I  shets  my  eyes  an'  prays    'im: 

' '  Down   again,  please   suh.  Amen ' '. 

— Lucy  Cherry  Crisp,    '19. 


FUN 

'Twould  be  great  to  be   out    of   doors   tonight 
With  the  rain  a  stinging  my  face, 

To  climb  to  the  top  of  a  pine-tree  hill 
And   challenge  the  wind  to  race. 

Along  the  brow   of  the  pine-tree   hill 

The   wind   and   I   would  run — 
'Tis   jolly  to   think   about,   oh  yes, 

But  to  do  it — that  would  be  fun  I 

""Betty  Jones,   '17-'21. 


PETER  PAN 

Some   call   Pan   a  pagan — 

They  are  those  who  do  not  know 

That  he  sees  God  in  every  flower, 
Hears  Him  in  all  winds  that  blow. 

When  he  pipes   of  the  beauty  of  dawning, 

Or  the  stillness  of  twilight  dim, 
I  think  that  God  and  all  the  angels 

Lean  down  and  listen  to  him. 

*Betty  Jones,   '17-'2t. 


'Deceased  December   9,   1925. 


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The  Letter  Box 


The  Alumnae  Association,  N.   C.  C.  W. : 
To    greet    you    with    every    good    wish    for 
Christmas  and  the  New  Year. 

Class  of  1923. 


A  "special  message''  from  the  Alumnae 
President,  Jane  Summerell,  '10.  We  commend 
it  to  your  careful  reading! 

G-reensboro,  N.  C. 

Dear    Alumnae    (the    whole    12,000    of    ye)  : 

Cannot  you  come  back  to  commencement  this 
year?  A  visit  to  your  Alma  Mater  would 
warm  the  cockles  of  your  heart;  for,  in  spite 
of  some  changes,  there  are  many  familiar  faces 
and  landmarks  that  make  you  feel  instantly 
at  home.  Mr.  Forney,  in  addition  to  his 
academic  duties,  still  safeguards  the  endorsing 
of  checks;  there  are  the  same  chairs  where  one 
waits  her  turn  to  see  President  Fous^t;  the 
walks  in  the  park  follow  their  wonted  mean- 
derings;  and  "Uncle  William"  still  trundles 
his  little  cart.  Besides,  if  you  were  all  here, 
you  would  reconstruct  your  own  college  era, 
and  absorb  the  bit  of  strangeness  here  and 
there  which  is  an  incident  in  the  phenomenal 
growth  of  our  college. 

It  would  seem,  from  the  sound  of  going  in 
the  tree  tops  and  whisperings  in  various 
quarters,  that  some  classes  are  already  plan- 
ning to  come  back.  This  being  the  year  for 
the  reunion  of  the  green  and  white  classes, 
there  is  ominous  activity  among  the  girls  of 
'94,  '98,  '02,  '06,  '10,  '14,  '18  and  '22;  and 
'24  and  '25,  knowing  the  reputation  of  those 
classes  to  plan  a  good  time,  have  asked  to 
have  reunions,  too.  "What  other  class  will  join 
this  jolly  company,  and  renew  old  friendships, 
compare  avoirdupois,  exhibit  children  and  hus- 
bands, and  gain  new  inspiration  from  our 
Alma   Mater?     A   hearty   welcome   awaits  you. 

And  just  as  our  college  stands  eager  to  wel- 
come her  daughters  back  home,  so  she  stands 
willing  to  help  you  with  your  problems.  Come 
prepared  to  tell  her  of  your  bit  of  the  Old 
North  State  that  needs  special  service  she  can 
render.  In  this  way  you  can  help  her  to  serve 
more  intelligently,  and  to  make  her  influence 
more  fully  felt  throughout  Carolina. 
Yours  for  a  happy  reunion, 

Jane  Summerell. 


This  charming  letter  comes  from  Annie  Lee 
Stafford,  president  of  the  Class  of  1919,  v;ho 
journeyed  a  little  more  than  a  year  ago  to 
I^ icaragua,  where  as  you  will  read,  she  is  prin- 
cipal of  the  Moravian  Junior  High  School  in 
Bluefields. 

Bluefields,  Nicaragua. 

First  of  all  let  me  say  to  our  secretani', 
' '  Here  are  my  '  dos  cordobas '  for  the  alum- 
nae fee. ' '  I  '11  send  them  as  a  check  though, 
for  Mr.  Forney  might  not  accept  "our"  cur- 
rency. Our  cordoba  is  of  the  same  value  as 
the  American  dollar.  Both  will  buy  many 
grape  fruit  at  one  cent  each  or  bananas  at 
forty  cents  a  bunch;  neither  will  buy  much 
wearing  apparel.  The  Niearaguaus  do  not 
produce  that,  so  we  must  pay  states'  prices 
plus  a  prohibitive  duty.  One  is  tempted  to 
dress  almost  as  comfortably  as  some  of  the 
smaller    children   here   do    occasionally. 

I  landed  here  on  the  morning  of  Thanks- 
giving Day,  1924.  When  the  boat  cast  anchor 
there  was  a  beautiful  rainbow  with  both  ends 
on  Nicaraguan  land.  I  wondered  if  I  should 
find    my    pot    of    gold    here. 

Certainly  the  sun  rise  clouds  are  shining 
gold.  From  my  east  window  I  look  across  a 
seven-mile  lagoon  with  palms  on  the  shore 
line  and  white  sail  boats.  The  sun  rises  al- 
most every  day  in  spite  of  the  annual  rain 
fall  of  more  than  fifteen  feet. 

I  picked  some  white  jasmine  this  morning 
that  smelled  like  the  ' '  breath  o '  spring ' '  hedge 
around  the  south  wing  of  Spencer.  I  think 
that's  why  I'm  writing  today.  The  Sprijig 
Miracle  was  never  so  wonderful  anywhere  as 
at  our  N.  C.  C.  The  long  shadows  on  the 
front  campus;  the  "bridal  wreath"  hedge  row 
in  front.  There  never  were  so  many  birds  any- 
where else.  I  don't  remember  seeing  bii-ds 
there  but  once,  a  lot  of  blue  birds  in  some 
late  spring  snow,  but  you  could  hear  any  time, 
however   many   it   takes   to   make   a   sjTuphony. 

I  have  seen  so  few  birds  here  and  I  expected 
to  see  many  with  brilliant  plumage.  Perhaps 
I  will  when  I  get  out  in  "the  bush"  as  they 
call  the  woods.  The  flowers  are  lovely:  Boa- 
gainvillias,  gorgeous  purple;  hibiscus,  red 
and  white;  jasmine;  pink  oleander;  tuberoses; 
begonias;  roses,  roses;  add  to  these  orange 
blossoms,  flamboyiaut,  and  orchids.  I  know 
five  kinds  of  orchids,  but  one  girl  here  knows 
twenty-four  kinds.  I  do  so  want  to  see  the 
nineteen    others. 

Eeally  I  'm  not  trying  to  plagiarize  a  Car- 
penter 's  geographical  reader.     I  shall  not  pro- 


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ceed  to  tell  about  native  foods,  animals  or 
customs  of  the  people,  for  that  would 
spoil  the  thrill  you'll  get  when  you  take  your 
winter  cruise  of  the  Caribbean.  But  please  do 
go  on  a  ship  that  stops  in  Ciemfucgos,  Cuba, 
for  a  day  at  least.  You  won't  want  to  leave 
at  all  after  you've  had  breakfast  in  one  of 
those  restaurants  right  on  the  street  where 
your  coffee  is  made  with  boiled  milk  salted; 
then  you  eat  little  sweet  cakes,  white  cheese  and 
guava  jelly.  Afterwards  you  go  into  an  anci- 
ent stone  church  near  by  and  see  the  senoras 
and  senoritas  wearing  their  lace  mantillas;  and 
then  ride  in  one  of  those  "victoria"  concerns 
over  impossible  streets  out  to  the  "Jardin 
Eoses".  I  hope  the  same  lovely  girl,  a  bride 
from  the  Canary  Islands,  will  be  there  to  take 
you  over  the  place,  which  her  father-in-law 
tends.  You  mustn't  leave  without  both  arms 
full   of  wonderful   roses. 

Perhaps  you  wonder  what  I'm  doing  here 
besides  "studying  nature".  I  am  serving  as 
Principal  in  the  Moravian  Junior  High  School 
here.  I'm  trying  to  put  across  a  few  rudi- 
ments of  knowledge  of  Spanish.  Creole,  Chinese, 
Norwegian,  and  American  boys  and  girls.  It 
is  hoped  that  the  school  may  develop  into  a 
teacher  training  school  for  the  Indian  boys  and 
girls  on  the  east  coast  of  Nicaragua.  It  is  not 
that  yet. 

I  do  want  to  tell  you  about  the  trips  I  have 
had  to  Eama  Key,  a  real  Indian  village,  where 
the  natives  live  in  bamboo  huts  with  no  floors 
and  with  thatched  roofs.  When  we  reach  the 
island  there  are  always  some  Indian  boys  and 
girls  waiting  at  the  landing  for  us,  but  most 
of  the  inhabitants  seem  to  have  disappeared 
completely  until  the  church  bell  rings;  then 
they  come  silently  in  groups.  The  women 
wear  white  turbans  to  church  and  full  cotton 
dresses,  very  clean.  The  little  girls'  dresses 
are  long.  There  is  one  pair  of  shoes  on  the 
island.  Those  belong  to  the  native  missionary. 
After  a  church  service  one  old  Indian  woman 
told  me  that  my  singing  sounded  like  angel 
singing,  but  she  added  later  in  the  conversation 
that  she  was  mighty  deaf,  couldn  't  hardly 
hear  a  thing!  That  somewhat  "took  the  wind 
out  of   my  feathers". 

With  every  good  wish  for  our  college  for 
which  I  never  cease  to  be  thankful;  a  college 
which  helps  some  to  see  visions,  some  to  dream 
dreams,  and  which  sends  the  big  "rest  of  us" 
forth  ■nith  working  clothes  on  and  with  tools 
in  our  hands. 

Annie  Lee  Stafford. 


From  Hope  Watson,  '17,  who  is  an  instnoc- 
tor  for  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company. 
For  some  time  she  Jms  been  stationed  at 
TampO;  and  writes  graphically  of  one  of  her 
excursions  into  Cuba. 

Tampa,  Pla. 

Our  secretary  has  asked  me  to  tell  you 
' '  something  interesting ' '  about  this  part  of 
our  America,  so  I  believe  I  shall  write  a  bit  of 
what  to  me  is  an  extremely  interesting  place 
— Key  West — and  of  another  intriguing  land 
—Cuba. 

On  April  12  of  last  year  I  sailed  from  Port 
Tampa  with  a  party,  and  on  the  morning  of 
the  second  day  we  docked  at  Key  West.  While 
our  ship  waited  here  for  the  New  York  train, 
the  group  explored  the  city.  Key  West  is 
built  on  a  coral  island  about  seven  miles  long 
and  two  miles  wide.  It  is  ancient  and  inter- 
esting. Our  exploration  included  the  fish  and 
turtle  markets,  the  naval  reservations,  the 
house  farthest  south  in  the  United  States;  and 
in  fact  about  all  the  island.  Upon  our  re- 
turn to  the  ship,  we  were  entertained  by  na- 
tives who  dived  in  the  harbor  for  coins  that 
the  passengers  tossed  overboard.  They  used 
their  mouths  for  pocket  books,  and  owing  to 
the  fact  that  the  train  was  late,  by  the  time 
the  ship  sailed  they  looked  as  if  they  had  a 
genuine   case   of  mumps! 

About  six  hours  after  we  left  Key  West  we 
sighted  Havana;  were  soon  met  by  the  pilot 
boat,  entered  the  harbor  and  landed  on  Cuban 
soil.  After  our  baggage  had  been  searched, 
we  proceeded  to  the  hotel  (I  might  add,  in 
Ford  cars— the  only  familiar  objects  we  saw). 

Havana  has  half  a  million  popvilation,  seven 
thousand  bar  rooms  and  sixty  churches.  Its 
architecture  is  suited  to  the  climate — high  ceil- 
ings, the  average  being  eighteen  feet,  over- 
hanging balconies,  high  barred  windows,  and 
massive  mahogany  doors.  Mahogany  is  such  a 
common  wood  that  the  street  posts  and  docks 
are  made  of  it.  The  streets  are  very  narrow 
and  we  were  surprised  that  no  Spanish  women 
were  to  be  seen  on  them.  They  are  seen  only 
at  the  races,  the  Casino,  or  driving  along  the 
Prado  or  Malecon. 

Everything  of  historical  interest  was  shown 
us — government  buildings,  the  home  of  Balboa, 
Columbus  Cathedral,  Lafuerza  Castle,  built 
under  the  direction  of  De  Soto,  Lapunta  For- 
tress, and  dozens  of  places  which  I  can't  re- 
call. In  the  Colon  cemetery  there  are  graves 
for  rent  by  the  year.  If  the  rents  are  not  paid 
promptly,  the  remains  are  dug  up  and  thrown 
into   the   bone  house! 

One  afternoon  we  took  a  big  launch  and 
were  can-ied  over  the  harbor  to  the  exact  spot 
where  the  "Maine"  was  sunk  in  1898.  From 
there  we  went  ashore  and  spent  the  afternoon 
in   Marro   Castle    and    Cabana   Fortress. 


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We  spent  oitr  evcmings  seeing  the  night  life 
of  Havana,  visited  Chinatown,  saw  a  Chinese! 
play,  attended  Spanish  theatre  and  one  evening 
we  witnessed  the  Jai  Alai  game.  It  is  hand- 
ball, somewhat  like  our  tennis,  but  requires 
more  alertness  and  endurance.  The  jdayers 
are  brought  over  from  Spain  and  we  were  told 
that  the  average  playing  life  is  from  four  to 
six  years.  This  game  is  played  nf)wliere  in 
the  Western  Hemisphere  Init  Havana,  Mexico 
City    and    Beunos    Aires. 

We  made  two  trips  into  interior  Culja,  on-j 
a  sixty-five  mile  train  trip  to  Matanzas.  To 
me  this  vi^as  the  most  beautiful  part  or  oar 
visit.  The  train  wound  its  way  through  sugar 
cane  fields,  pineapple  plantations,  cocoanut  and 
royal  palm  trees,  beautiful  valleys,  and  roll- 
ing country.  We  motored  around  Matanzas  and 
out  to  Bellamar  Caves,  passing  fields  of  henequen 
from  which  rope  is  made.  Then  we  were 
driven  to  the  Hermitage  of  the  Montserrate,  a 
quaint  church  on  a  high  bluff,  overlooking  the 
Yumuri  Valley.  Services  are  held  here  but 
once  a  year  and  marvelous  cures  are  said  to  be 
made  at  these  services.  Before  we  returned  to 
Havana,  we  visited  the  Hershey  sugar  mills. 


Our  other  rural  trip  was  a  forty  mile  auto- 
moliile  (not  Ford!)  tour,  including  a  stop  at 
a  typical  Cuban  peasant  home — thatched  roof, 
clay  floors,  with  everybody  and  the  chickens 
uikIci'  one  roof.  We  saw  almo.st  every  fruit, 
pliiiit,  and  shrub  that  grows  in  Cuba.  As  we 
returned  to  Havana,  we  visited  the  brewery 
wher*;  they  sene  you  free  all  the  beer  you 
want  and  where  several  men  of  the  party 
wished  to  be  left! 

One  day  wo  shopped.  Most  of  us  purchased 
powder,  perfume,  fans,  laces,  combs,  and  hand 
embroidery. 

We  thoroughly  enjoyed  the  trip,  but  after 
eight  days  of  Spanish  food  we  were  delighted 
to  get  back  to  the  states  and  eat  a  regular 
American    cooked    meal ! 

I  am  planning  to  come  to  commencement 
sometime — maybe  this  year.  You  have  no 
idea  how  much  I  want  to  see  the  college,  my 
classmates   and   other    college   friends. 

In  the  meantime,  every  good  wish  to  all  of 
you,  and  love  and  gratitude  to  my  Alma  Mater. 

Hope  Watson. 


Affairs  of  the  Organizations 


ANSON    COUNTY    ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

The  joint  banquet  of  the  alumni  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  the  alumnae  of  the  North  Carolina 
College  for  Women  and  the  present  students 
of  these  institutions,  with  the  seniors  of  the 
high  schools  of  the  county  as  invited  guests, 
was  held  on  the  evening  of  December  30th  in 
the  Fraternal  Hall,  Wadesboro.  There  was  an 
attendance  of  about  one  hundred  enthusiastic 
sons  and  daughters.  A  delicious  dinner  was 
served  by  the  ladies  of  the  Old  Dutch  Tea 
Boom.  The  address  of  Dr.  Collier  Cobb,  from 
the  University,  was  the  principal  feature  of 
the    occasion. 

R.  W.  Allen  made  the  invocation,  after 
which  W.  L.  McKinnon  as  toastmaster  spoke 
the  words  of  welcome  and  introduced  the 
speakers.  Jeannie  Ellington  Allen,  '96,  opened 
the  talks,  asing  as  her  subject  "Our  College". 
She  was  immediately  followed  by  the  zestful 
singing  of  the  college  song.  Mary  Burns,  '23, 
toasted  the  University;  W.  K.  Boggan  toasted 
N.  C.  C.  W. ;  both  toasts  received  much  ap- 
plause. Fannie  Dunlap  and  Castelloe  Bland, 
students,  spoke  respectively  on  "Future  Alimiui 
and  Alumnae ' '  and  ' '  Freshmen  Impressions 
of  College ' '.  Annie  Lee  Harper  Liles,  '1 0, 
read  a  message  from  Clara  B.  Byrd.  Alumnae 
Secretary  at  N.  C.  C.  W. 


Dr.  Cobb  talked  informally  and  most  inter- 
estingly, covering  a  wide  field  and  touching 
upon  many  subjects.  His  chief  theme,  however, 
was  the  great  work  being  accomplished  so 
competently  by  the  two  most  important  edu- 
cational   institutions    in    the    state. 

THE    BUNCOMBE    COUNTY    ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

The  Buncombe  County  Alumnae  met  at  a 
luncheon  in  Asheville,  on  Saturday,  January  2, 
at  Webb's  Cafe  on  the  Square.  About  forty 
members  were  present. 

Preceding  the  luncheon,  a  short  business  ses- 
sion was  held.  Mrs.  J.  S.  Williams,  chairman, 
presided.  Chief  in  importance  during  the  ses- 
sion was  the  election  of  new  officers,  which  re- 
sulted   as    follows : 

Mrs.  Xettie  Parker  Wirth,  chairman;  Miss 
Marguerite  McDowell,  vice-chairman ;  and  Mrs. 
Maude  Bagwell  Steele,  secretary  and  treasurer. 

A  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  Mrs.  Williams 
for  her  s;:ilendid  work  as  chairman  of  the  As- 
sociation   during    the   past    several   years. 

The  alumnae  members  showed  a  wonderful 
spirit  yesterday  and  voted  to  renew  their  ef- 
forts stronger  than  ever  toward  cooperating 
with  their  alma  mater  and  in  working  toward 
a    stronger    organization. 


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College  songs  were  sung  and  messages  were 
read  from  Dr.  J.  I.  Foust,  president  of  the 
college,  and  from  Dr.  Cook. 

Miss  J  alia  Blauvelt,  a  senior  at  the  North 
Carolina  College  for  Women,  was  present  for 
the  luncheon,  and  brought  greetings  from  the 
Asheville   girls   at  the  college. 

The  luncheon  yesterday  was  given  in  order 
that  the  Asheville  girls  attending  the  college 
could  be   present. 

GASTON   COUNTY  ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

A  delightful  meeting  of  the  Gaston  County 
alumnae  was  held  on  October  15th  at  the  home 
of  Nena  Ehyne  Long.  The  spacious  rooms  were 
bright  with  Eadiance  roses,  cosmos  and  golden 
rod. 

In  the  absence  of  the  president,  Sue  Eamsey 
Johnston,  who  is  spending  the  winter  in  New 
York,  the  vice-president,  Helen  Eeid,  of 
Lowell,  presided.  "The  Old  North  State", 
the  college  song,  and  others,  were  sung  with 
enthusiasm,  and  broadcasted  messages  from 
faculty  members  at  the  college  were  heard  with 
pleasure.  These  communications,  beautiful  in 
form  and  inspiring  in  content,  were  from  Dr. 
Foust,  Dr.  Cook,  Mr.  Forney,  Mr.  Jackson, 
Miss  Mendenhall,  Dr.  Brown,  and  Miss  Coit. 
The  closing  number  on  the  program  was  a  very 
amusing  one-act  play,  ' '  Specialties ' ',  in  which 
parts  were  taken  by  Oeland  Barnett  Wray, 
Lucile  Mason,  .Josephine  Thomas,  Mary  Dim- 
mock  Mun-ay,   and  Joyce  Eudisill. 

Meeting  the  necessity  of  choosing  a  netv 
president  for  the  remainder  of  the  year,  the 
association  elected  Katherine  McLean  Jordan. 
Plans  were  at  once  made  to  have  another  meet- 
ing next  spring. 

At  the  close  of  the  program,  an  ice  course, 
with  cake,  was  served,  with  a  white  cosmos 
bloom   as   a  favor  on  each   plate. 

GUILFORD  COUNTY  ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

Meeting  two.  We  were  called  by  our  chair- 
man, Lena  Kernodle  McDutiie,  to  meet  at  her 
home  on  the  evening  of  January  5,  for  a  short 
business  and  social  meeting.  The  election  of 
new   officers   resulted   as   follows : 

Chairman,  Euth  Hampton  Shuping ;  vice- 
chairman,  Martha  Brooks  Banks ;  secretary, 
Zelian    Hunter;    treasurer,    Elizabeth    Simkins. 

We  planned  in  a  general  way  several  future 
meetings,  but  left  the  appointment  of  the  com- 
mittees and  the  arrangements  in  the  hands  of 
the  new  president.  Delicious  refreshments 
were   served. 

MARSHVILLE    (UNION  COUNTY) 
ALUMNAE   CLUB 

Meeting  two.  A  business  and  social  meeting 
held  with   Miss   Kate   Morgan  the   first    Satur- 


day in  November.  We  voted  to  order  fifteen 
copies  of  Tea  Kettle  Talk  and  have  already 
sold  ten.  We  also  discussed  matters  of  interest 
connected  with  the  college  and  made  plans  for 
future  meetings.  At  the  close  of  the  hour  re- 
freshments  were   served. 

Edna  Bell,  Chairman. 

Anne  Parker,  Secretary. 

NORFOLK-PORTSMOUTH   ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

Meeting  two.  A  business  meeting,  held  at 
the  home  of  Mrs.  Leslie  Jones,  the  last  Satur- 
day in  October,  concluding  with  a  social  hour. 

Meeting  three.  This  was  held  on  December 
5th  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  J.  N.  Kilgore.  After 
the  regular  business  meeting  our  president, 
Mrs.  Hardison,  gave  us  a  report  of  the  address 
of  Mr.  Livers,  Director  of  Extension  and  Busi- 
ness Manager  at  our  College,  on  the  occasion 
of  his  recent  visit  to  Norfolk  when  he  appeared 
on  the  program  of  the  State  Parent-Teacher 
Association.  Our  association  was  instrumental 
in  bringing  Mr.  Livers  to  Norfolk  for  this  oc- 
casion and  he  made  a  real  contribution  to  the 
program.  He  also  brought  to  our  alumnae 
group  good  news  from  North  Carolina  and 
our  alma  mater.  The  meeting  concluded  with 
delicious  refreshments. 

Meeting  four.  Held  on  January  9th  at  the 
home  of  Mrs.  George  G.  Harmon.  We  per- 
fected plans  for  a  rummage  sale  and  a  subscrip- 
tion card  party  to  raise  money  to  make  a  pay- 
ment on  our  pledge  to  the  Student-Alumnae 
Building. 

The  fifth  meeting  will  be  held  with  Lottie 
and  Jennie  Eagle  at  their  apartment  on  West- 
over. 

Lottie  Eagle,   '99,  Secretary. 

NORTHAMPTON    COUNTY   ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 

On  Friday  evening,  November  6,  the  North- 
ampton alumnae  gave  a  most  enjoyable  banquet 
in  the  high  school  building  at  Eich  Square, 
having  as  guests  alumnae  and  former  students 
now  living  in  Northampton  County  and  their 
husbands.  The  color  scheme  of  gold  and 
white  was  carried  out  in  autumn  leaves  and  chry- 
santhemums, which  decorated  the  tables.  Pic- 
tures of  Dr.  Foust  and  Dr.  Mclver  and  college 
campus  scenes,  and  the  soft  glow  of  many 
candles  served  to  bring  to  the  banquet  room 
a  bit  of  the  college  atmosphere,  along  with  a 
happy  festive  spirit  in  keeping  with  the  oc- 
casion. 

Mrs.  Henry  Holloman,  chairman  of  the  chap- 
ter, suggested  that  the  Old  North  State  be  sung 
as  an  introduction  to  the  banquet  and  under 
the  direction  of  Miss  Alberta  Thompson  her 
suggestion  was  heartily  carried  out.  Then  in 
a  few  well  chosen  words  Mrs.  Holloman  wel- 
comed the  guests.     Mrs.  M.  E.  Whitehead  read 


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an  inspiring  message  from  Dr.  Foiist,  president 
of  the  college.  Mrs.  Thomas  Everette  gave  a 
toast  to  the  college,  to  which  A.  J.  Connor,  for 
many  years  a  director  of  the  college,  responded. 
After  the  singing  of  the  college  song  Lucy 
Cherry  Crisp,  from  the  Pitt  County  chapter, 
read  a  sketch  concerning  the  faithful  old  ser- 
vants back  at  the  college  home.  As  a  fitting 
close  for  a  happy  evening  of  fellowship  Miss 
Thompson  led  the  singing  of  one  of  the  campus 
songs,  "Ain't  it  Good  Tonight  to  be  in  Caro- 
lina. ' ' 

WASHINGTON   CITY  ALUMNAE   CLUB 

Meeting  two.  This  came  in  November  and 
w^as  held  at  the  home  of  Anna  D.  Doggett. 
Under   old    business   we    discussed   membershiD 


in  the  A.  A.  U.  W.     Under  new  business  came 
the  election  of  officers,  resulting  as  follows: 

CTiairman,    Pearl    Robertson. 

Vice-cliairman,   Marion   Miller. 

Sec.  and  Treas.,  Pauline  White  Miller. 

The  parts  of  the  playlet,  "Specialties", 
were  assigned,  and  we  decided  to  give  it  at 
the  January  meeting.  A  happy  social  hour 
followed. 

Meeting  three.  Delia  Kichardson  was  our 
hostess  on  December  loth,  calling  us  together 
at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Kenyon.  This  was  our 
Christmas  meeting,  and  the  principal  feature 
was  a  Cliristmas  tree,  on  which  we  exchanged 
gifts,  and  around  which  we  sat,  feasted  and 
gaily   chatted. 

Our  fourth  meeting  is  scheduled  for  .January, 
at   tbe   home   of    Sudie   Mellichampe. 

Pauline  White  Miller,  Secretary. 


Among  the  Alumnae 


CLASS   OF   1894 

Sudie  Israel  Wolfe  (Mrs.  Harry  F.),  Beverly, 
N.  J.,  is  planning  to  make  a  trip  south  this  year, 
and  we  are  happy  to  know  that  she  includes 
the  college  in  her  itinerary.  She  says  it  has 
been  thirty  years  since  she  was  here.  ' '  At 
that  time  there  were  only  the  two  original 
brick  buildings :  The  administration,  with  lec- 
ture rooms,  auditorium  and  gymnasium,  and 
the  large  brick  dormitory  with  Miss  Kirkland 
and  Mrs.  Carraway  in  charge.  We  used  oil 
lamps  w'hich  we  filled  from  cans  kept  in  the 
cellar.  The  reception  room  was  very  sparsely 
furnished  and  when  we  were  to  entertain  the 
U.  N.  C.  Glee  Club,  the  girls  brought  furnish- 
ings from  their  ow'ii  rooms  to  make  the  room 
appear  more  hospitable.  I  remember  that  one 
girl  thought  it  so  terrible  to  have  any  color 
except  blue  and  white  in  evidence,  that  some 
one  got  a  pair  of  blue  and  a  pair  of  white 
stockings  and  draped  the  table  legs!  One  of 
the  much  favored  walks  at  that  time  was  to 
the  mineral  springs  to  taste  the  different  kinds 
of  water.  I  can  even  now  visualize  Doctor 
Mclver  plowing  around  his  home,  as  there  was 
no  sward  on  the  ISTormal  property. ' ' 

CLASS  OF  1898 

Sadie  Hanes  Connor  (Mrs.  R.  D.  W.),  Chapel 
Hill,  is  treasurer  of  the  N.  C.  Federation  of 
Women 's  Clubs. 

CLASS   OF   1899 

Bulus  Bagby  Swift,  Greensboro,  is  the  new 
president  of  the  North  Carolina  Branch  of 
the  Congress  of  Parents  and  Teachers.     In  her 


first  message  to  her  co-workers,  published  in 
the  December  number  of  the  Bulletin,  Mrs. 
Swift  faces  frankly,  yet  courageously,  the  task 
ahead :  ' '  'Tis  true  we  are  near  the  bottom 
from  the  standpoint  if  illiteracy,  and.  not  con- 
tent with  this  Ave  are  growing  more  illiterates 
in  that  we  are  permitting  our  children  to  stop 
school  and  enter  employment  with  no  educa- 
tional requirement.  'Tis  true  that  we  are  at 
the  bottom  of  the  list  of  states  from  stand- 
point of  public  libraries.  'Tis  true  that  we 
can't  even  use  public  funds  for  kindergartens 
until  our  state  constitution  is  changed.  Then, 
too,  it's  true  that  we  simply  forget  to  give  a 
square  deal  to  our  country  children.  We  make 
them  pay  a  severe  penalty  for  having  been 
born  in  the  country.  'Tis  true  that  in  our 
democracy  we  have  doomed  some  of  our  children 
between  fourteen  and  sixteen  years,  who  can- 
not continue  in  school,  to  toil  ten  and  eleven 
hours  per  day  or  sixty  hours  per  week. 

"None  of  these  things,  hard  facts  though 
they  be,  can  dampen  our  zeal.  Tliey  simply  show 
us  the  immensity  of  our  task.  The  battle  is 
partly  won  when  we  see  the  task  and  set  about 
to  do  it.  We  do  not  expect  to  change  North 
Carolina  into  a  Garden  of  Eden  for  all  of  her 
children  immediately.  We  do  intend,  however,  to 
raise  aloft  our  banner  bearing  the  inscription 
'The  Welfare  of  Every  Cliild  in  North  Caro- 
lina,' and  march  more  than  twelve  thousand 
strong^slowly.    sanely,    surely   to   that    goal. ' ' 

CLASS  OF   1907 

Blanche  Austin  Thies  (Mrs.  0.  .J.,  Sr.)  lives 
in  Cliarlotte.  She  has  two  children — Austin 
Cole    and    Blanche    Hegraann.     Mrs.    Thies    is 


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an  effective  worker  in  all  chareli  and  civic 
movements. 

Mariam  Boyd  say  that  she  is  still  a  "school 
marm",  teaching  mathematics  in  the  Warren- 
ton  High  school. 

Eula  May  Blue  teaches  Latin  and  History 
in  the  Carthage  High  School,  though  she  says 
that  at  sometime  during  her  experience  she  has 
taught  every  subject  offered  in  their  high  school 
course,   except   science   and    geometry. 

Clare  Case,  who  directly  after  graduation 
was  a  member  of  the  faculty,  assisting  Miss 
Boddie  in  the  Latin  Department,  is  Mrs.  Fred 
P.  Ingram  and  lives  in  High  Point.  She  has 
six  children — three  sons,  and  three  daughters, 
four   of  whom   are   in   school. 

Florence  Gray  is  at  Blackey,  Kentucky — 
in  the  heart  of  the  Cumberland  Mountains — 
teaching  in  the  Stuart  Kobinson  School,  a  mis- 
sion school  under  the  control  of  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  Church.  Its  purpose  is  training 
boys  and  girls  for  Christian  leadership. 
Florence  has  charge  of  the  work  in  teacher 
training,  added  this  year  for  the  first  time,  and 
is  also  teaching  English.  Many  of  the  stu- 
dents teach  in  the  surrounding  counties,  and 
it  is  hoped  that  the  work  in  teacher  training 
may  assist  in  improving  the  quality  of  their 
work. 

Mary  Hyman  is  the  successful  supervisor  of 
the    Guilford    County    public    schools. 

CLASS   OF   1909 

Nettie  Dixon  Smith  (Mrs.  Major)  lives  in 
Eeidsville.  Her  husband,  who  is  an  attorney, 
has  recently  been  appointed  clerk  of  the  Su- 
perior Court  of  Eockingham  County. 

CLASS  OF   1910 

ATTENTION;     1910! 

Four  years  have  rolled  around  once  more. 
So   swift  now  seems  time 's   flight. 

And  commencement's  looming  up   again 
With  reunion  for  Green  and  White. 

You  '11  find   a  hearty  welcome  here. 
There  are   five  of  us  to  greet  you. 

Jane    Summerell's    Alumnae   President — 
With  open  arms  she  '11  greet  you. 

And  Katie  Kime  is  teaching  here. 

Annie  Davis  is  quite  the  same. 
Alice  Ledbetter  's  married  and  living  here. 

And  the  list  ends  with  my  name. 

Will  write  you   early  in  the  spring 

Of   all   we  plan   to   do. 
But  begin  to  think   of   coming   back, 
You — and   all    the   children,    too. 

Laura  Weill  Cone, 
President    Class   of   3910. 


CLASS  OF   1911 

Annie  Goodloe  Brown,  who   spent  a  number  * 
of    years    doing    Eed    Cross    work    among    the 
soldiers   in   the   government   hospital,   Oteen,  is 
this   year   working  in   the  library   at   the   Uni- 
versity. 

Nora  Carpenter  is  studying  at  Chapel  Hill. 
She  is  living  in  the  Women's  Building. 

Jessie  Earnhardt  Christenberry  is  living  now 
in  Greenville,  S.  C.  She  has  three  sons — 
George,  Edwin,  and  Eobert,  aged  ten,  five  and 
one  year,  respectively.  Jessie  writes  that  she 
has  lived  in  other  states  so  much  of  the  time 
since  her  graduation  that  she  has  been  unable 
to  come  back  to  visit  the  college  as  she  would 
have  like  to  do;  but  she  is  a  member  of  the 
new  alumnae  club  in  Greenville,  S.  C,  and 
enjoys  the  contact  with  the  little  group  there. 

Catherine  Ervin  is  secretary  to  Dr.  J.  K. 
Hall,    Westbrook    Sanitarium,    Eichmond,    Va. 

Catharine  Jones  Pierce,  who  spent  last  year 
at  the  college,  assisting  in  the  library,  is  this 
year  teaching  first  grade  in  the  academic-pla- 
toon system  in  Durham.  She  has  two  fine  boys, 
Wilson    and    Henry. 

Harriet  C.  Wardlaw  is  a  clerk.  United  States 
Veterans'   Bureau,    Washington. 

CLASS  OF  1912 

Hazel  Hunt  Smith  (Mrs.  J.  Andrew)  writes 
from  her  home  in  Gcldsboro  that  she  hopes  to 
return  soon  to  see  the  '  •'  greater  college ' '  that 
now  exists  on  the  campus.  It  has  been  ten 
years  since  she  was  among  us.  We  shall  give 
her  a  cordial  welcome.  Her  daughter,  Euth, 
is  nine  years  old,  and  her  mother  says  she 
is  a  future  N.  C.  College  girl. 

Myrtle  Green  (Mrs.  B.  C.  Short)  writes  from 
Shanghai,  China,  where  her  husband  is  in  busi- 
ness. She  says,  ' '  I  suppose  I  may  be  called 
a  '  semi-missionarj', '  for  after  arriving  here 
with  my  husband  in  the  fall  of  3924,  I  accepted 
work  in  St.  Mary's  Hall,  a  high  school  for 
Chinese  girls.  English  and  Mathematics  are 
my  subjects.  I  am  getting  all  sorts  of  thrills 
and  adventures,  for  we  have  had  a  recurrence 
of  wars  and  strikes  ever  since  we  reached  here. 
The  students  struck  last  June,  and  spring  ex- 
aminations  were   given   in    September. ' ' 

Leah  Boddie  is  teaching  history  in  the  Dur- 
ham High  School.  Last  June  she  received  her 
master 's  degree  in  American  History  from 
Duke  University.  Although  Leah  claims  she 
is  '  *  resting ' '  from  outside  activities,  we  hap- 
pen to  know  for  ourselves  that  she  teaches  a 
Sunday  school  class  of  young  girls,  is  treas- 
urer of  the  City  Teacher 's  Association  and 
member  of  a  committee  in  the  Woman 's  Club 
— an  organization  in  which  she  has  taken  much 
interest. 

Mary  K.  Browu,  who  was  secretary  at  Whit- 
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years,  is  secretary  to  departineiit  of  Economics 
and  Coiiiinerco  at  the  University,  llcr  Histcr, 
Emmie  ('32- '16),  also  lias  a  position  in  CliajK;) 
Hill. 

Grace  Eaton  it  tcacliinj^  stenography  anrl  sec- 
retarial training  in  tlie  Business  High  School, 
Washington,  D.   C. 

May  Green  is  Superintendent  of  the  Belo 
Home  Association  in  Winston-Salem.  Her  Sun- 
day school  class  of  fifty  young  women  also 
claim  a  large  place  in  her  interest. 

CLASS   OF   1913 

Hazel  Black  Farrior  (Mrs.  N.  P.)  is  living 
in  Glenville,  W.  Va.,  where  her  husband  ]s 
pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  ' '  One  of 
his  most  important  duties, ' '  writes  Hazel,  ' '  is 
work  with  the  students  of  the  Glenville  Nor- 
mal School."  In  1921  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farrior 
were  sent  to  Mexico  as  missionaries  under  the 
Southern  Presbyterian  Church.  They  remained 
there  until  1924,  when  they  were  forced  to 
return  to  the  states,  because  of  the  effect  of 
the  high  altitude  on  Hazel's  health.  They 
have  two  small  daughters,  Antoinette  Black  and 
Hazel    Black. 

CLASS   OF   1914 

Willie  M.  Stratford  Shore  (Mrs.  W.  T.), 
Charlotte,  is  chairman  of  the  department  of 
public  welfare  in  the  State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs.  She  concludes  an  article  in  a 
recent   issue   of   the  Federation  Bulletin  thus: 

' '  Whenever  we  go  over  the  State  as  mem- 
bers of  the  State  Federation — let's  preach  the 
gospel  of  'more  light'  on  public  welfare  needs 
in  North  Carolina  until  every  club  woman  is 
aroused  to  her  responsibility  and  privilege  to 
vote  for  and  work  for  the  delinquent,  depend- 
ent, and  defective  humanity  throughout  the 
borders  of  our  State.  Let 's  stand  for  the 
Department  of  Public  Welfare  and  its  splendid 
chairman,  Mrs.  Johnson,  urging  on  every 
hand  that  the  Department  be  increased  and 
strengthened  to  do  more  efficient  work  for  the 
unfortunates   in  North   Carolina." 

Fannie  Starr  Mitchell,  who  for  several  years 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Greensboro  High 
School  faculty,  was  this  year  made  dean  of 
students. 

Marguerite  Brooks  Plummer  (Mrs.  Nixon) 
lives  in  Washington,  where  her  husband  is  a 
newspaper  correspondent.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Peggy.  Marguerite  is  remembered 
with  affection  at  the  college  as  secretary  of 
the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  the  year  before  her  marriage. 

Bessie  Craven  Clinard  (Mrs.  S.  E.)  lives 
near  High  Point.  She  has  three  daughters, 
Mary  Ruth,   Willie   and  Frances. 

Mary  Green  Matthews  lives  near  us  in  High 
Point.     She  says  her   time  is  filled  caring  for 


and  training  two  lively  youngsters,  Shuford 
Kogers,  Jr.,  and  Susannah.  We  wish  she  would 
bring  them  over  for  a  visit  to  the  campus. 

I'attie  Groves  received  a  degree  from  Duke 
University  in  1922  and  has  since  hieen  taking 
a  medical  course  at  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege, Philadelphia.  We  think  she  expects  to 
receive  her  degree  at  the  close  of  this  year. 
And  we  hope  she  is  jjlanning  to  return  to  her 
native  state. 

Sallie  Boddie  is  teaching  home  economics  in 
the   Durham   High   School. 

Louise  Alexander  is  succeeding  as  an  insur- 
ance writer,  and  incidentally  enjoys  her  new 
occupation. 

Louise  Bell  is  teaching  the  fourth  grade  in 
New   Bern. 

CLASS  OF  1915 

Julia  Holt  Black  is  Mrs.  James  A.  Davis, 
and  lives  at  118  N.  Wilmington  Street, 
Raleigh,   N.   C. 

Gertrude  Carraway  has  written  recently  a 
number  of  interesting  feature  articles  for  the 
Greensboro   Daily  News. 

Martha  Decker  (Mrs.  J.  Ed.  Kauipe)  lives 
in  Asheville.  She  has  one  daughter,  Dorothy 
Decker. 

Edith  Haight  is  this  year  acting  head  of  the 
Department  of  Physical  Education  foj-  Women 
at  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn.  Last  summer 
she  attended  summer  school  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity and  is  pursuing  her  work  this  winter 
in  evening  and  Saturday  class.  Edith  expects 
to  receive  her  M.  A.  in  Physical  Education  at 
Columbia  next  summer.  We  remember  with 
much  appreciation  her  good  work  as  instructor 
in  physical   education  at  her   alma   mater. 

Margaret  Linker  is  at  present  in  the  em- 
ployment of  the  State  Department  of  Educa- 
tion, in  charge  of  the  teacher  training  de- 
partment of  the  Churchland  High  School. 
Previous  to  this  work,  she  taught  since  gradu- 
ation in  the  primary  department  of  the  Salis- 
bury schools. 

Hildah  Mann  Jones  (Mrs.  L.  E.)  lives  in 
Norfolk,  Ya.  She  has  two  little  girls,  Nancy 
Jane,  nearly  three  years  old,  and  Betty  Mann, 
nearly  two. 

Rebecca  Stimson  is  doing  primary  work  in 
the    Statesville    schools. 

Ethel  Thomas  is  teaching  high  school  Eng- 
lish in  her  home  toAvn,  Lenoir.  At  one  time 
Ethel  did  excellent  work  as  society  editor  on 
the   Greensboro   Daily  News. 

Carey  Wilson  Taylor  (Mrs.  G.  W.)  lives  in 
Mooresville.  where  here  husband  is  a  physician, 
doing  a  general  practice.  She  has  three  chil- 
dren— Caroline  Taylor,  George  Winston,  Jr., 
and  Sarah  Harris  Tavlor. 


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CLASS   OF   1916 

Eosa  Blakney  Parker  (Mrs.  B.  C),  Marsh- 
ville,  is  chairman  of  the  committee  on  Mental 
Hygiene  in  the  State  Federation  of  Women's 
Clubs.  She  is  a  member  of  the  school  board, 
and  is  particularly  interested  in  her  work  with 
it.  The  Marshville  High  School  is  the  largest 
in  the   county. 

Mary  Gywnn,  who  was  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Secretary 
in  Asheville  for  a  number  of  years,  is  in  New 
York  this  winter,  studying  at  the  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
Training   School   and   at   Columbia    University. 

Trances  Summerell  is  chairman  of  the 
Science  Teachers'  Association  of  the  North- 
western District.  She  teaches  in  Winston- 
Salem. 

Jeannette  Cox  St.  Amand  lives  in  Wilming- 
ton. She  is  teaching  public  school  music  this 
year  from  grades  one  to  six. 

Elizabeth  Craddock  Chadbourn  lives  in  Al- 
buquerque, New  Mexico.  She  has  one  daugh- 
ter, Miriam,  four  years  old.  She  virites  n'ost 
interestingly :  ' '  My  thoughts  are  with  you  and 
I'm  so  proud  of  the  wonderful  strides  the 
college  has  made.  Life  in  the  far  west  I  find 
very  alluring — my  days  are  full  with  teaching, 
keeping  house,  nursing  an  invalid  husband  and 
raising  an  active  daughter.  But  they  are 
happy  days  and  I  am  younger  in  many  ways 
than  I  was  in  1916.  Yes,  my  hair  is  bobbed! 
Kate  Mae  Streetman  Corpening  (Mrs.  Max) 
lives  in  Chicago,  where  her  husband  is  manager 
of  a  riding  club.  He  resigned  from  the  army 
last  year ' '. 

Lizzie  Fuller  Pickett  lives  in  Bethesda,  Md., 
eight  miles  from  Washington.  She  says,  "I 
enjoy  very,  very  much  the  Alumnae  News — it  is 
interesting  to  know  about  our  friends  and  class- 
mates and  also  to  hear  about  the  wonderful 
progress  of  the  college.  And  may  I  say  a  good 
word  for  the  Alumnae  Cook  Book:   it  is  fine". 

Janie  Ipoch  is  the  new  chairman  of  the 
Wayne  County  Alumnae  Association.  She 
teaches  mathematics  in  the  Goldsboro  High 
School. 

Tempe  Boddie  Barringer  (Mrs.  Paul)  lives 
in  Sanford.  She  has  two  fine  sons,  Paul,  Jr., 
and  John.  Previous  to  her  marriage  Tempe 
was  a  member  of  our  college  faculty,  teaching 
in   the  department  of  Latin. 

CLASS  OF   1917 

Ann  Daniel  Boyd,  Class  Secretary 

Flossie  Harris  Spruill,  who  for  several  years 
was  president  of  the  N.  C.  Branch  of  the  Con- 
gress of  Parents  and  Teachers,  still  retains  her 
interest  in  that  work.  She  is  first  vice-presi- 
dent  of  the   organization. 

Euth  Kernodle  McDonald  (Mrs.  R.  L.)  writes 
of  seeing  Estelle  Dillon  Babcock,  her  husband 
and  two  splendid  boys,  in  Washington  this 
summer.       They   were   returning    to    Princeton 


from  a  visit  to  relatives  in  North  Carolina. 
Ruth  has  two  fine  children,  George  Mark  and 
Marjorie  Ann.  Her  friends  will  recall  that 
she  taught  one  year  after  graduation  in  an 
Americanization  School  for  Chinese,  and  found 
the  work  intensely  interesting.  The  Chinese 
are  very  grateful  people.  One  of  the 
children  wrote  a  composition  describing  Ruth 
as  ' '  tall,  black  hair,  walk  very  fast,  wear 
brown  dress,  smill  nice !  ' '  Wasn  't  that  a 
talented  pupil  and  doesn  't  it  sound  like  old 
times ! 

Ethel  Ardrey  Coble  (Mrs.  M.  A.)  is  living 
in  Burlington,  where  she  taught  for  four  years 
in  the  city  schools.  She  has  one  son,  George 
William. 

Winifred  Beekwith  is  again  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Greensboro  High  School — head 
of  the  department   of   English. 

Flossie  Kersey  Knudson  lives  in  Floral  Park, 
N.  Y.,  at  82  Violet  Avenue.  She  writes  ap- 
preciatively of  the  Alumnae  News  and  says, 
"  I  do  not  wish  to  miss  a  single  copy ' '. 

Mable  Lippard  is  head  of  the  English  depart- 
ment in  the  Salisbury  High  School.  As  op- 
portunity permits  she  is  studying  for  her 
master 's    degree    at    Peabody    College. 

Isabelle  McAllister  is  Mrs,  James  F.  Leary 
and  lives  at  Roper.  She  has  two  daughters, 
Sarah   Frances   and   Kathryn   McAllister. 

Isabel  Bouldin  Edmunds  (Mrs.  T.  B.)  lives 
in  Lynchburg,  Va.  Isabel  Bouldin  the  second 
and  baby  Nancy  Barksdale  are  two  daughters. 
Previous  to  her  marriage,  Isabel  served  two 
years  as  correspondent  in  the  American  Red 
Cross  Headquarters,  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
spent  one  winter  working  in  the  department  of 
Justice,  Washington.  Her  friends  in  Greens- 
boro, which  is  her  old  home,  are  hoping  for 
a  visit  from  her  before  a  great  while.  And 
that  means  her  alma  mater  is  hoping  with 
them! 

Katie  Pridgen  is  principal  of  a  Girls'  In- 
dustrial School  at  Albemarle.  Katie  has 
bought  a  home  and  she  and  her  mother  keep 
house. 

Juanita  Puett  is  teaching  French  at  Ham- 
let,  and   is   dean   of   girls    in   the   high   school. 

Artelee  Puett  has  charge  of  the  Business 
Department   of  the  Belmont   High   School. 

Lillian  Morris  is  head  of  the  Latin  Depart- 
ment in  the  Salisbury  High  School.  We  all 
rejoice  with  Lillian  over  the  recovery  of  her 
mother.  Mrs.  Morris  had  been  ill  for  about 
13  months.  Lillian  visited  Agnes  Petrie  Cazel, 
in  Asheville,  on  last  Thanksgiving.  She  says 
Agnes  has  two  sons,  "the  oldest  of  whom  talks 
just  as  fast  as  Agnes  ever  did  in  college ' '. 

Hattie  Lee  Horton  Stall  has  recently  moved 
into  her  new  home,  and  her  address  is  3235 
Woodrow    Ave.,    Richmond,    Va. 


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CLASS   OF  1918 

Susan  Green,  Thoinasville,  is  chairman  of 
the  Davidson  County  Alumnae  Association. 
She  is  bookkeeper  for  the  Thomasville  Chair 
Company. 

Nell  Bishop  Mcllugh  is  this  year  dean  of 
music,  Mars  Hill  College,  Mars  Hill,  N.  C. 
She  has  one  son,  Roy  Francis. 

Daisy  Boyd  is  teaching  the  fourth  grade  in 
the  Waynesville  elementary  school.  She  and 
her  sister,  Bessie  Boyd,  '19,  travelled  in  the 
west  last  summer  and  spent  six  weeks  study- 
ing at  the  University  of  California. 

Bertie  Craig  is  librarian  at  the  new  Ferry 
Memorial  Library  in  Henderson.  At  the  re- 
cent meeting  of  the  State  Library  Association, 
held  at  Chapel  Hill,  she  was  elected  secretary 
of  that  body. 

Kate  Brooks  Pond  (Mrs.  Norman),  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  has  a  small  son,  Bobby,  and  a 
daughter,  Fatricia.  Previous  to  her  marriage 
Kate  taught  one  year  in  Louisburg.  After- 
wards she  worked  under  Dr.  Stiles  on  a  sur- 
vey connected  with  diseases  among  returned 
soldiers,  and  also  worked  later  in  the  labora- 
tory of  the  government  hospital  at  Staten 
Island. 

Carrie  Cranford  is  this  year  teaching  mathe- 
matics in  the  Salisbury  High  School.  She  is 
also  leader   of  the  Girl  Reserves. 

CLASS   OF   1919 

Edith  Russell,  who  did  such  fine  work  in 
dramatics  in  the  Raleigh  schools,  and  who  was 
notable  as  a  student  for  her  talent  and  interest 
in  this  work,  is  studying  his  year  in  New  York 
City.     Her  address  is  537  W.  121st  St. 

Pearl  Cornwell  Elliott  (Mrs.  E.  S.)  is  study- 
ing this  year  at  the  Southern  Baptist  Semi- 
nary in  Louisville,  majoring  in  the  Old  and 
New    Testaments. 

Eoline  Everett  is  head  of  the  department  of 
English  in  the  Orlando,  Florida,  Senior  High 
School,   and  is   also   dean   of   girls. 

Belle  Mitchell  Brown  (Mrs.  R.  L.)  lives  at 
College  Station,  Texas,  where  her  husband  has 
been  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  for 
the  past  five  years.  The  Texas  A.  and  M.,  with 
an  enrollment  of  about  2300  men,  is  situated 
there,  and  presents  a  challenging  stituation. 
Belle  teaches  the  Baptist  ' '  Fish ' '  Sunday 
School  Class,  one  of  the  largest  Bible  classes 
for  young  men  in  Texas.  Although  her  church 
work  naturally  claims  the  greater  part  of  her 
time  still  she  also  finds  opportunity  to  take 
some  part  in  the  club  work  of  her  community. 

Lucy  Forlaw  is  now  Mrs.  A.  W.  Daniels  and 
lives  at  Beaufort.  She  has  one  son,  Arthur 
Winfield  Daniels,  Jr. 

Margaret  Hayes  is  rural  supervisor  in  Craven 
County.     As  opportunity  permits,  she  is  study- 


ing   for    her    M.    A.    degree    in    Education    at 
Peabody  College. 

Laurinda  ilooks  is  at  her  home  in  Golds- 
boro  this  year,  teaching  piano.  She  spent 
three  months  in  Europe  last  summer,  arriving 
home  September  3.  While  away  she  visited 
France,  Switzerland,  Italy,  Spain,  and  Enf:j- 
land.  One  month  she  stayed  in  France  and 
studied  jiiano. 

CLASS  OF   1920 

Laura  Howard  is  teaching  again  at  Keids- 
ville. 

Marjorie  Mendenhall  spent  last  summer,  her 
second,  at  Harvard,  studying  for  her  master 's 
degree  in  history. 

Elsilene  Felton  Speir  (Mrs.  A.  C.)  lives  at 
Tarboro.  She  has  one  small  daughter,  Elsilene 
Ruth,  the  second,  called  Ruth. 

Anna  Bernard  Benson  is  again  teaching  Eng- 
lish in  the  High  Point  High  School.  She  spent 
last  summer  travelling  through  the  west,  in- 
cluding six  weeks  of  study  at  the  Lniversity 
of  California.  Anna  Bernard  studied  at  Co- 
lumbia University  during  the  summer  of   1924. 

Mabel  Boysworth  received  her  master 's  de- 
gree in  Sociology  from  the  State  University 
in  1925.  She  is  now  in  Raleigh,  doing  work 
as  a  visiting  teacher  and  truant  officer. 

Josie  Causey  is  a  member  of  the  Greensboro 
High  School  faculty,  teaching  French.  She 
studied  at  Columbia  last  summer,  working  to- 
ward her  master 's  degree  in  Romance  Lan- 
guages. 

Catherine  Cobb  Smoot  (Mrs.  Watson)  lives 
at  906  Augusta  Street,  Greenville,  S.  C.  She 
has  one  one  small  son  and  daughter,  James 
Watson,    Jr.,    and    Lucile    Cobb. 

Lela  May  Harper  is  in  Richmond,  Va.,  tak- 
ing a  course  in  bookkeeping  and  accounting. 

Vie  Sanders  was  awarded  the  prize  of  $2.5.00 
offered  by  the  U.  D.  C.  and  given  by  T.  E. 
Sprunt,  for  the  best  paper  on  ' '  The  History 
and  Accomplishments  of  the  North  Carolina 
Division,  U.  D.  C. " 

Margaret  Heinzberger  is  Industrial  Secre- 
tary in  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  Durham.  She  visited 
the  college  this  fall.     . 

Yera  Keech  is  studying  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity for  her  master 's  degree  in  rural  supervision. 
Her  address  is  Apt.  45,  Seth  Low  Hall,  106 
Morningside  Drive,   New   York   City. 

Murriel  Barues  is  teaching  Home  Economics 
in   the   Cliffside   schools. 

Ethel  Baugh  is  again  at  Clayton  presiding 
over  the  third  grade. 

This  year  finds  Clara  Brawley  again  at 
Leaksville,  teaching  English  in  the  high  school. 
Last  summer  she  was  a  counsellor  at  North- 
over  Camp,  Bound  Brook,  N.  .J. 

Elizabeth  Calvert  is  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity this  year.  She  is  living  in  the  Woman 's 
Building. 


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CLASS   OF   1921 

Seid  Parler  ElJis,  Class  Secretary 

' '  To    greet    voii    witli    every    good    -nisli    for 
Christmas  and  the  New  Year/   Class  of  1923." 
Mary  Sue  Beam,  Secretary. 

Eliza  Capehart  is  teaching  history  this  year 
in  the  high  school,  Koxobel.  Her  first  year 
out  of  college  was  spent  at  home.  The  next 
two  she  taught  history  in  the  Wilkesboro  High 
School.  It  has  been  a  pleasure  to  have  her 
visit  the  college  all  along  since  her  graduation 
— we   wish   she  would    come    oftener. 

Edna  Evans  is  teaching  Home  Economics  in 
the    high    school,    Whiteville. 

Amy  Bell  Graham  lives  in  LaGrange.  She 
has   one   daughter,  Elsie   Graham. 

Evelyn  Hodges  Glenn  (Mrs.  John  B.)  sends 
as  her  permanent  address  7  Wall  Street,  New 
York.  Her  husband  is  an  international  finan- 
cial representative,  and  they  spend  a  part  of 
each  year  in  Mexico. 

Mary  Jackson  is  teaching  science  in  the  high 
school,  Spring  Hope,  and  likes  her  work  there. 

Gladys  Newman  is  in  New  York,  studying 
piano  with  a  private  teacher. 

Mary  Louise  Nixon  is  teaching  first  grade 
at  Eoanoke  Rapids. 

Dixie  Eeid,  who  studied  last  year  at  Pea- 
body  College,  is  spending  this  year  at  Co- 
lumbia, working  for  her  master's  degree  in 
French.  Her  address  is  Apt.  5  W,  417  W. 
114th  Street,  New  York  City. 

CLASS  OF  1922 

Anne  Cantrell  White  (Mrs.  Ben  N.,  Jr.)  is 
now  in  Denver,  Colo.,  Avhere  her  husband  is  a 
patient  in   the  Eitzsimmous   General   Hospital. 

Branson  Price  is  with  the  Greensboro  Daily 
News,  assisting  in  thfe  advertising  department. 

Joscelyn  McDowell  is  in  Ealeigh  this  winter, 
teaching  American  and  European  History  in 
the  Morson  Senior  High  School.  She  visited 
Grace  Forney  Maekie  at  her  home  in  New  York 
during  the  holidays. 

Olive  Chandley  Crawford  (Mrs.  Lawrence) 
is  living  in  the  Shaw  Apartments,  Greensboro. 
She  is  organist  at  the  Cluirch  of  the  Covenant, 
and  also  has  private  classes  in  piano  and 
organ. 

Hannah  May  Fleetwood  is  teaching  history 
and  Latin  in  the  Kernersville  High   School. 

CLASS  OF   1923 

Mary  Sue  Beam,  Cla^s  Secretary 

(If  any  member  of  the  class  did  not  re- 
ceive during  January  a  questionnaire  from  the 
class  secretary,  please  let  her  know  at  10  North 
Boylan  Avenue,  Raleigh,  N.  C.) 

Mavis  Burchette  and  Helene  Hudnell  are 
teaching  in  High  Point. 


Mae  Siterson  is  at  Sanatorium,  N.  C,  where 
she  is  taking  treatment.  She  will  be  glad  to 
hear   from   her  classmates   there. 

Carrie  Brittain  is  studying  at  the  Presby- 
terian General  Assembly's  Training  School, 
Richmond,  Va.  Her  address  is  3400  Brook 
Road,  Richmond,  Ya. 

Maude  Bundy  teaches  fifth  grade  in  Mount 
Airy. 

Thelma  Hawkins  teaches  home  economics  at 
Spring  Hope. 

Esther  Moody  teaches  home  economics  in  the 
Junior    High    School,   Raleigh. 

Anna  Claire  Johnson  has  a  position  with  the 
Wake   County  Health  Department,   Raleigh. 

Gertrude  Durham  is  teaching  the  sixth  grade 
in  one  of  the  Knoxville   (Tenn.)   schools. 

Grace  Albright  is  spending  her  third  year  as 
assistant  in  the  biology  department  of  the  col- 
lege. 

Vera  Ayres  is  teaching  literature  and  geog- 
raphy in  the  fifth  and  sixth  grades  in  Ealeigh. 

Beulah  Brake  is  teaching  her  second  year  at 
New  Hope  School,  one  of  the  Junior  High 
Schools  in  Wilson  Coimty.  Her  address  is  Wil- 
son, Et.  1.  She  is  very  much  delighted  with 
her  work  and  surroundings.  There  are  ten 
teachers  in  the  system,  five  of  whom  live  to- 
gether  in   a   teachers '    home. 

Ida  Cardwell  is  teaching  literature  and  geog- 
raphy in  the  Wilmington  schools.  She  was 
abroad  last  svmimer  and  attended  lectures  at 
the  University  of  Switzerland  on  the  Federa- 
tion Universitaire  Intenaationale.  She  had  the 
splendid  opportunity  of  hearing  Sir  Arthur 
Salter,  of  Great  Britain,  Senator  Douglas,  of 
the  Free  State  of  Ireland,  Marley  0.  Hudson, 
of  Harvard  University,  and  many  other  inter- 
esting speakers. 

Virginia  Terrell  is  in  New  York,  reporter 
for  the  Evening  Post. 

Lizzie  Whitley  and  Syretha  Sossoman  are 
teaching   third   grade  work  in  Burlington. 

Margaret  Bedell  is  teaching  voice  at  the  In- 
stitute for  the  Blind,  Raleigh. 

Addie  Biggs  is  also  in  Raleigh,  doing  gram- 
mar  grade  work. 

Eleanor  Hill  is  supervisor  of  public  school 
music  in  Roanoke  Rapids. 

Maitland  Sadler  is  also  in  Eoanoke  Eapids, 
teaching  English  and  History  in  the  high 
school. 

Pear]  Knight  is  teaching  grade  3A  in  Eose- 
mary. 

Sarah  Presson  teaches  history  in  the  Monroe 
High  School. 

Sarah  Warren  teaches  home  economics  in  the 
Shelby   High    School. 

Jessie  Eedwine  is  teaching  first  grade  in 
Salisbury.  She  made  an  extensive  visit  to  the 
west  last  summer,  stopping  for  three  weeks  in 
Arizona  and  travelling  on  afterwards  to  Cali- 
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guest  on  a  number  of  motor  and  camping  trips 
given  by  friends  to  points  of  interest  in  that 
picturesque  country.  In  California  she  was  al- 
so the  guest  of  friends  and  visited  many  of 
the  places  most  interesting  to  Easterners, 
among  them  the  oil  wells  at  Taft. 

Also  teaching  in  Salisbury  are  Ann  Tharp 
Eeynolds  and  Mary  Teresa  Peacock.  Mary 
Teresa  teaches  English  in  the  eighth  grade. 

CLASS   OF   1924 

Ethel  Boyal,  President 
Cleo  Mitchell,  Secretary 

Dear  Members  of    '24: 

Two  years  ago!  Does  that  remind  you  of 
anything  exciting?  How  many  remember  that 
old   '24  is  going  to  have  a  big  reunion  in  1926, 


ETHEL   ROYAL 
Everlasting  President,  '24 


CLEO    MITCHELL 
Everlasting  Secretary.  '24 


the  biggest  and  the  finest  that  has  ever  been 
held  at  N.  C.  College?  To  have  a  big  cele- 
bration of  our  class  every  member  must  be 
there,  for  we  want  to  have  a  chance  to  see 
everybody,  and  hear  all  that  has  happened  in 
the  two  years  we  have  been  gone.  There  are 
two  other  reasons  why  you  must  be  at  our  re- 
union— it's  our  big  sisters'  reunion  and  our 
little  sisters '  graduation.  Of  course  we  want 
to  see  our  sisters  and  our  classmates,  and  this 
is  the  golden  opportimity  to  get  to  see  all  we 
want  to  see  and  hear  all  we  want  to  hear. 

Begin  your  plans  now,  and  next  month  in 
the  Alumnae  News,  you  can  hear  the  plans  of 
'24.  Won't  you  write  a  card  to  Cleo  Mitchell, 
2  Bryan  Lane,  Chapel  BQll,  jST.  C,  and  tell 
her  you  are  going  to  be  there  f     Class  of    '21-, 


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let's  show  our  Alma  Mater  -what  the  Lavender 
and  Whites  of  '24  can  do!  All  hail  to  four 
and  twenty  is  oar  motto  for  our  reunion  and 
won't  you  be  there  to  help  sing  it? 

Love  and  sincere  wishes, 

Ethel  Royal. 

The  following  note  from  Lucile  Kasehagen 
ShufHer  tells  its  own  story  and  needs  no  inter- 
pretation for  any  member  of  the  Class  of   '24 : 

' '  Dearest  Ethel :  I  wrote  and  thanked  Susie 
and  Loula  for  the  lovely  spoon  the  class  sent 
little  Marion,  but  have  all  along  intended  writ- 
ing you,  too.  He  is  using  the  spoon  now  and 
you  should  see  the  way  he  likes  it.  Please 
accept  our  thanks  in  behalf  of  dear  old  '24. 
Am  hoping  we  can  be  at  the  reunion  in  June 
and   see   you    and  the   others.     Love.     Lucy". 

Jean  Ledbetter  wrote  early  in  the  fall  from 
Bailey,  where  she  is  very  happy  in  her  work. 
She  teaches  English  and  coaches  the  girls' 
basketball  team.  "Already  our  team  has 
played  two  games ' ',  she  said,  ' '  and  won  both 
of  them !  ' ' 

Mary  Grier  is  principal  of  the  Fisher  Street 
School  in  Burlington.  She  is  also  secretary  of 
the  Grammar  Grade  Teachers'  Association  of 
the   Northwestern    District. 

Laura  Davis  writes :  ' '  This  is  my  second 
year  at  Southern  Pines.  Last  year  I  had  sixth 
grade  work,  but  this  am  teaching  the  fourth 
grade.     I    enjoy   it    here   very   much." 

Elizabeth  Fulton  is  supervisor  of  mvisie  in 
the  Burlington  schools. 

Mary  Green  in  teaching  English  and  health 
in  the  Ayeock  School,  Greensboro.  She  is 
rooming  with  Mary  Elizabeth  Morris,  '25. 
They  both  had  parts  in  the  playlet,  ' '  Presi- 
dent by  Proxy",  given  recently  at  the  annual 
meeting  and  dinner  of  the  Greensboro  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  The  event  was  held  in  South 
Dining  Hall  at  the  college.  The  play  has  since 
been  repeated  in  Danville  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  that  city. 

Aveline  Ashworth  is  teaching  English  and 
French  in  the  high  school  of  Elon  College. 

Eva  Bagley  is  also  teaching  high  school  Eng- 
lish  at   Moyoek. 

Lois  Barnett  and  Mary  Berryhill  are  doing 
fourth  grade  work  in  the  Gastonia  schools. 

Velma  Beam  is  at  Cherryville,  teaching  home 
economies  in   the   eighth   and   ninth   grades. 

Elizabeth  Boyd  is  teaching  the  third  grade 
in    Lineolnton. 

Azile  Clark  is  also  in  I/ineolnton,  supervisor 
of  public  school  music  in  the  primary  and 
grammar    grades. 

Sara  Canter  is  again  at  Rnffin,  teaching 
home  economics. 

Estelle  Cockerham  is  teaching  in  High  Point, 
the  third  grade. 

Sara  Cowan  says,  "I'm  teaching  English  in 
the    eighth    and   ninth    grades    of    the   Monroe 


High  School.  Eight  N.  C.  C.  W.  girls  are 
teaching  here,  and  it's  fine  for  us  to  be  to- 
gether. I  hope  to  be  back  on  the  campus  soon 
for    a    visit. ' ' 

Mary  Miller  is  teaching  her  second  year  in 
Gastonia.  She  studied  last  summer  at  Colum- 
bia University.  We  were  glad  to  see  her  on  the 
campus  last  fall.  Sudie  Mitchell  is  at  Col- 
lege Station,  Texas,  spending  the  winter  with 
her  sister,   Belle  Mitchell  Brown,    '19. 

Randolph  Hill  is  stenographer  with  the  North 
Carolina  State  Library  Commission. 

Celeste  Jonas  is  teaching  piano  in  Aberdeen. 

Margaret  Martin  is  at  home  again  in  Char- 
lotte, and  is  teaching  fifth  grade  work  in  the 
city   schools. 

Sarah  Hamilton  writes :  ' '  After  a  delight- 
ful summer  in  the  mountains  of  North  Caro- 
lina and  Tennessee,  I  came  back  to  Gastonia 
for  my  second  year  of  teaching.  Am  enjoy- 
ing my  work  very  much.  I  watch  eagerly  for 
all  the  good  news  from  my  Alma  Mater.  Love 
and  best  wishes." 

Rachel  Scarborough  is  planning  to  go  to 
Europe  next  summer.  We  hope  that  will  not 
prevent  her  from  coming  to  the  reunion  in 
June. 

CLASS  OF   1925 

' '  Did  you  know  that  Julia  Franck  and  Annie 
Laurie  Hudson  are  teaching  here  this  year? 
They  are  making  a  splendid  record."  So 
reads  a  letter  from  Greenville,   N.  C. 

Margaret  Rowlett  appears  on  the  campus  now 
and  then  for  an  all  too  short  visit.  She  is 
teaching  in  Winston-Salem. 

Beatrice  Davis  is  teaching  French  and 
Mathematics  in  the  Pantego  High  School. 

Malissa  Andrews  is  teaching  French  and  Eng- 
lish in  the  high  school  at  Waco.  She  is  also 
manager  of  girls'  athletics. 

Virginia  Armstrong  is  teaching  history  and 
writing  in  the  sixth  and  seventh  grades  at 
Mt.   Holly. 

Eleanor  Armfield  is  teaching  English  in  the 
sixth  and  seventh  grades  in  Salisbury.  She 
enjoys  teaching,  but  finds  that  it  requires  con- 
tinuous preparation — it  wasn't  all  done  in 
college ! 

Margaret  Battle  Bridgers  is  studying  for  her 
M.  A.  degree  in  sociology  at  the  University. 
She  is  preparing  to  be  a  research  worker  in 
social  science.  She  says,  "If  my  present  plans 
mature,  my  research  work  will  be  concerned 
with  social  problems  in  North  Carolina,  espe- 
cially  the  mill  village  problem." 

Annie  Belle  Buie  is  at  Gibson,  doing  work 
in  the  third  grade. 

Lois  Burt  is  teaching  public  school  music  in 
Cary. 

Helen  Clayton  is  teaching  home  economics  in 
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Mary  Harper  Cobb  (Mrs.  E.  D.  MacGoiigan) 
puts  her  occupation  down  as  "housekeeper". 
She  was  among  the  first  of  the  class  to  be 
married. 

Mildred  Doxey  is  doing  fourth  grade  work 
in   Wilson. 

Nannie  Earle  is  teaching  English  and  French 
in  the  Sedge  Garden  School,  Kernersville,  Et. 
4.  She  writes  about  the  the  multifarious  duties 
that  are  hers,  and  adds  an  enthusiastic  para- 
graph that  has  "real  cream  and  fried  chicken" 
as  its  subject;  to  all  who  may  chance  to  see  her 
round  and  rosy  countenance,  we'll  say,  "be- 
hold the  result !  ' '  And  we  wonder  if  there  '11 
be  a  vacancy  or   so  in  that  school  next  year ! 

Mary  Holland  is  teaching  public  school  music 
in  the  city  schools   of  Rockingham. 

Mozelle  Jackson  is  also  teaching  public 
school   music  in   the  Lilesville   school. 

Lorena  Kelly  is  teaching  biology,  general 
science,  and  English  in  the  Mount  Airy  High 
School. 

Annie  Elliott  Lee  is  in  Monroe,  teaching 
English  in  the  Junior  High. 

Esther  Fleming  is  teaching  English  and 
history  in  the  eighth  and  ninth  grades  at 
Hamptonville. 

Anna  French  is  teaching  mathematics  in  the 
high  school,  Draper. 

Catherine  Hight  is  teaching  history  in  the 
Greensboro  High  School.  Her  address  is 
1030  W.   Market   Street. 

Margaret  Eay  Patterson  is  teaching  at  Lake- 
land, Fla.,  the  sixth  grade.  She  says:  "The 
schools  are  naturally  much  overcrowded.  T 
have  fifty-six  pupils  in  one  room,  and  forty 
desks!  Twenty-one  states  and  Canada  are  rep- 
resented among  this  number.  It  comes  in 
very  handy  in  studying  geography ! ' '  We  Avish 
her  joy,  and  will  say  she's  equal  to  it! 

Anne  Wetmore  Tillinghast  ('94- '97),  Fay- 
etteville,  is  fourth  district  vice-president  of  the 
North  Carolina  Branch  of  Parents  and 
Teachers. 

Annie  Gudger  Quinlan  ('95- '98)  (Mrs.  C. 
E.)  Waynesville,  is  president  of  the  first  dis- 
trict in  the  State  Federation  of  Women 's 
Clubs. 

Heleii  Claxton  Walker  ('15- '16),  remembered 
at  the  college  both  as  the  daughter  of  Dr.  P. 
P.  Claxton,  as  member  of  our  faculty  in  the 
early  days,  as  well  as  for  herself,  lives  in  Wash- 
ington City  and  has  two  small  sons — Curtis, 
Jr..   and   Claxton. 

MAHRIAGES 

Leah  Oettinger  ('98- '99)  to  Ray  Pridgen 
Taylor,  November  17,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride 's  brother  in  Greensboro.  At  home, 
Kinston. 

Mary  Fay  Davenport  ('12)  to  Carroll  Carl- 
ton Harmon,  November  4,  Mount  Holly,  N.  C. 


At  home,  Gastonia.  Mrs.  Harmon  is  superin- 
tendent of  public  welfare  in  Gaston  County, 
in  which  position  she  has  made  a  notable  rec- 
ord.    Mr.   Harmon  is  a  realtor. 

Leah  Slaughter  (']3-'14)  to  Frederick  Car- 
lyle  Shepard,  June  27,  Goldsboro.  At  home, 
Chapel  Hill,  where  the  groom  is  doing  work  for 
his  Ph.  D.  degree.  Mr.  Shepherd  has  made  an 
outstanding  record  at  the  University.  He  was 
elected  to  Phi  Kappa,  and  Golden  Fleece;  was 
a  varsity  track  and  basketball  member,  cap- 
tain of  the  basketball  teams  1919-21;  and  a 
member  of  the  Pi  Kappa  Phi  fraternity. 

Pauline  Grainger  ('15- '16)  to  W.  8. 
Teachey,  December  23,  First  Christian  Church, 
Wilson.  At  home,  Reidsville,  where  the  groom 
is  engaged  in  business.  The  bride  formerly 
taught. 

Thelma  Woodward  ('17)  to  G.  H.  Jenkins, 
during     the     summer.       At     home,     Maysville. 

Fleta  Wallace  ('17- '21)  to  C.  W.  Clark, 
December  30,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  par- 
ents, at  Star.  For  several  years  Fleta  taught 
successfully  in  the  schools  of  High  Point  and 
Star.  The  groom  is  an  alumnus  of  State  Col- 
lege. They  are  living  in  Castleberry,  Ala., 
where   Mr.   Clark   is   an   agriculturisr. 

Birdie  Renn  Petree  ('18- '19)  to  J.  G.  York 
of  High  Point,  N.  C,  January  7th.  At  home, 
High  Point,  where  the  groom  is  engaged  in 
business. 

Virginia  Postles  ('18- '20)  to  Dr.  RajTUond 
Thomas,  in  Washington  City,  the  latter  part 
of  August.  Dorothy  Harwell  ('19- '20),  now 
Mrs.  Perry  Colman,  was  matron  of  honor.  Dr. 
Thomas  is  interne  at  Garfield  Hospital  this 
year.  They  are  at  home  14th  and  Monroe 
Streets,  N.  W.,  Washington.  D.   C. 

Ora  Lee  Thompson  ("'18- '20)  to  John  Hay- 
wood Lane,  November  25,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Stantonsburg.  At  home,  Wilson.  The 
groom  is  a  farmer  and  is  an  alumnus  of  State 
College. 

Virginia  Rouss  Hayes  (  '19)  to  Hobart  The- 
odore Steele,  October  31,  Augusta  Ga.  At 
home,    Burlington. 

Cornelia  Jones  ( '20)  to  Wood  Privott,  June 
30.  Baptist  Church,  Kenansville.  At  home, 
Edenton. 

Marie  Richard  (  "20)  to  Wm.  E.  Fluker,  of 
Meridian,  Miss.,  September  5,  1925.  At  home, 
Norfolk,   Ta. 

Esther  Kersey  ('20- "21  and  S.  S.)  to  Ernest 
Crouch,  during  the  holidays,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents  near  High  Point.  Pre^-ious  to 
her  marriage,  Esther  was  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  Revolution  School,  Greensboro.  At 
home.  High  Point,  where  the  groom  is  engaged 
iu  business  with  his  father. 

Nannie  Marsh  ('20- '21)  to  Draper  AValton 
Leigh,  December  9th,  at  ihe  home  of  Rev.  E. 
E.  White,  Greensboro.     Mr.  Leigh  is  connected 


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with  the  Southern  Eaihvay.  At  home,  High 
Point   Eoad. 

Lois  SoutherlancI  ('20- '22)  to  Charles  C. 
Hinkle,  Jr.,  December  28th,  Eichmond,  Va. 
At  home,  Greensboro. 

Carolyn  Clark  ('21)  to  John  Henry  McMul- 
lan,  July  29,  Norfolk,  Va.  Carolyn  has  taught 
continuously  since  her  man-iage,  first  at  New 
Bern  and  last  year  at  Edenton.  At  home, 
Winston-Salem. 

Mabel  Phillips  ('21- '22)  to  John  D.  Whar- 
ton, at  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Pierce, 
Greensboro,  October  17.  At  home,  204  W. 
Smith  St.,  Greensboro,  N.  C.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wharton  are  connected  with  the  Ameri- 
can  Exchange   National   Bank. 

Jennie  May  Henry  ('21- '28)  to  Eobert 
Henry  Pinnix,  First  A.  E.  Presyterian  Church, 
Gastonia,  October  21.  Jennie  May  was  voted 
the  "most  beautiful"  girl  when  in  college. 
Her  husband  is  a  graduate  of  Duke  University, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Tau  Omega 
fraternity.  After  a  wedding  journey  to  New 
York  and  Canada,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pinnix  re- 
turned to  Florida,  where  the  groom  is  engaged 
with   his   brother   in    the   real    estate   business. 

Mary  Katherine  Liles  ('22)  ito  C.  Edward 
Eatlift'.     At   home,   Morven. 

Hazel  Eogers  ( '22)  to  Alton  Color d,  June 
10.     At  home  853   May  St.,   Jacksonville,   Fla. 

Annie  Laurie  Choate  ('22- '23)  to  Daniel 
Jay  Whitner,  September  63,  Salisbury.  At 
home.  Hickory.  The  groom  is  an  alumnus  of 
the  University,  having  received  his  master 's 
degree  in  1923,  and  is  engaged  in  teaching  in 
Catawba  County. 

Emma  Young  ('22- '23)  to  W.  F.  Dorsey, 
December  2i,  at  home  of  the  bride's  parents, 
Spartanburg.  At  home,  Shelby,  where  the 
groom  is  engaged  in  banking. 

Elizabeth  Martin  ('22- '25)  to  H.  J.  Elam, 
Jr.,  December  9,  at  the  home  of  Eev.  J.  F. 
Kirk,  Greensboro.  Mrs.  Elani  is  a  daughter  of 
Professor  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Martin  of  the  col- 
lege   faculty.     At    home,    Greensboro. 

Dorothy  McNair  ('22- '25)  to  James  Madison 
Tyler  at  Wilmington,  N.  C.  At  home,  Tampa, 
Fla.  Mr.  Tyler  is  a  graduate  of  the  Georgia 
School  of  Technology,  and  is  the  representa- 
tive of  the  Southeastern  Under\\Titers  Associa- 
tion in  Tampa,  Fla. 

Evelyn  W.  Parker  ('22- '25)  to  Hoke  Smith, 
October  23,  St.  Augustine,  Fla.  At  home,  342 
Charlotte  Street,  St.  Augustine,  Fla. 

Lola  Pearl  Shore  ('22- '25)  to  Benjamin 
Blackwell  Monroe,  during  the  holidays  at  the 
home  of  friends.  Palm  Beach,  Fla.  At  home, 
418   Washington  Drive,  Palm   Beach. 

Lucile  Forester  ( '23-  '24)  to  William  Thomas 
Cox,  November  10,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
mother,  Eamseur.  At  home.  Ealeigh.  Mr.  Cox 
is  an  alumnus  of  the  State  College,  Ealeigh,  and 


is  connected  with  the  faculty  of  that  institu- 
tion 

Alma  Mitchell  ('23)  to  Walter  Thomas 
Short,  December  29,  Eolesville  Baptist  Church, 
Wake  Forest.  At  home,  Galveston,  Texas, 
where  the  groom,  a  graduate  of  Texas  A.  and 
M.  College,  is  an  architect. 

Frances  Watson  ('23)  to  J.  Andrew  Bell, 
in  High  Point,  N.  C,  on  January  8th.  At 
home,  Greensboro,  where  Mr.  Bell  is  connected 
with  the  Wiggins  Motor   Co. 

Faith  Johnson  ( '24)  to  Perry  Grady  Bunn, 
on  December  30,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents  in  Winston-Salem.  At  home,  Hotel 
Cape  Fear,  Wilmington,  where  her  husband  is 
in  business.  Since  her  graduation.  Faith  has 
been  teaching  in  the  city  schools  of  Winston- 
Salem. 

Annie  Hornaday  ( '24)  to  George  Francis 
Henry,  the  ceremony  taking  place  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  aunt  in  Goldsboro.  After  a 
short  northern  wedding  trip  the  couple  are  at 
home  in  their  newly  completed  home  in  Gas- 
tonia. 

Kathleen  Armstrong  (S.  S.)  to  Earle  G. 
Wilder,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  in 
Spencer,  in  November.  Louise  Younee,  '25, 
played  the  wedding  music.  At  home,  Clear- 
water, Florida,  where  the  groom  is  engaged  in 
the  real  estate  business. 

Euby  Myrtle  Stephens  (S,  S.)  to  Junius 
Calvin  Beckwith,  December  30,  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  sister,  Eoanoke,  Va.  At  home, 
Troy,  N.  C. 

ENGAGEMENTS 

Jane  Dill,  '25,  to  Eexford  Willis,  the  wed- 
ding to  take  place  next  summer.  The  an- 
nouncement was  made  at  a  party  given  in 
New  Bern  during  the  holidays  by  friends  of 
the   bride-elect.     Jane   is   teaching  in   Kinston. 

BIRTHS 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  L.  Koontz  (Corday 
Olive,  '02- '07)  402  Victoria  St.,  Greensboro, 
a   daughter,  Martha  Long,  December   16. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Duval  Duckett  (Elizabeth 
Harrison,  '12- '14,  '15- '16)  a  second  son,  John 
Pendleton,  May  25th. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  Stewart  (Fannie  B. 
Eobertson,  '14)  a  daughter,  Sarah  Eobertson, 
December  7th,  Highsmith  Hospital,  Fayette- 
ville. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  W.  Cashatt  (Sadie 
Fistoe  '17),  20  Holland  St.,  Asheville,  a  son, 
T.   W.,   Jr.,   in    July. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  B.  Edmunds,  (Isabel 
Bouldin,  '17),  Lynchburg,  Va.,  a  daughter, 
Nancy  Barksdale,  on  December  6. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Findley  Pollock 
(Marion    Wright,     '18- '20)    a    daughter,    Jane 


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Eenshaw,  September  20,  Georgetown  Univer- 
sity Hospital. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Phillips,  (Lela  Wade, 
'20)  a  son.  Wade  Wiley,  on  Defember  ]9th, 
at  their  home  in  Sunset  Hills,  Greensboro. 

To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  Street  (Julia  Mont- 
gomery, '23)  a  daughter,  Carol  Montgomery, 
on  January  ],  ]926. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  D.  Strickland  (Adele 
Alexander,  '24)  a  son,  Frank,  Jr.,  January 
9th,   Greensboro,   N.    C. 

IN    MEMOEIAM 

Frances  Elizabeth  .Jones  ('17- '21)  lovingly 
known  as  "Betty",  died  December  9th,  in 
Colorado  Spring,  Colo.,  following  an  illness  of 
three  years.  Her  body  was  brought  back  to 
Charlotte,  her  home,  for  burial. 

Eunice  McAdams  ('21)  died  at  her  home 
in  Salisbury,  on  December  4,  following  an  ill- 
ness of  several  months.  Eunice  was  a  leader 
among  her  classmates.  After  graduating  she 
taught  in  the  city  schools  in  Wilmington  for 
two  or  three  years.  Last  year  she  went  to 
Baltimore  to  teach  in  an  exclusive  school  for 
girls,  but  her  health  gave  way  and  she  w;is 
obliged  to  come  home  in  the  spring.  The 
memory  of  her  vivacity,  her  zest  for  living,  her 
almost  boundless  enthusiasm,  her  love  for  her 
work,  for  her  friends,  for  all  people,  make  the 
vacancy  all  the  larger,  all  the  more  difficult  to 
understand. 

We  offer  our  sympathy  to  Eugenia  Harris 
Holt  ( '04)  in  the  death  of  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Eugene  Harris,  of  Chapel  Hill,  who  died  in 
Charlotte  following  an  operation. 


Albert  S.  Keister,  professor  of  Eco- 
nomics, has  recently  been  awarded  first 
prize  of  $100.00  in  a  contest  conducted 
by  the  Magazine  of  Wall  Street  for  the 
best  article  on  the  subject:  "The  Best 
Investment— What  Is  It?"  The  Maga- 
zine of  Wall  Street  claims  to  have  the 
largest  circulation  of  any  financial  peri- 


odical in  the  world.  In  this  present 
contest  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty 
manuscripts  were  submitted,  coming 
from  every  state  in  the  union  and  for- 
eign countries.  Two  other  prizes,  for 
fifty  and  thirty-five  dollars  each  were 
given.  Professor  Keister 's  article  ap- 
pears in  the  December  number  of  the 
magazine  awarding  the  prize. 

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